Mitchell v. Welcome Wagon, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2003
11 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 215
Relies on Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · McLeod v. Threlkeld · D. A. Schulte, Inc. v. Gangi · Bozant v. Bank of New York
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The communications with Defendant’s divisional offices, including the rare transmittal of the executory service contracts, are purely internal, and like the confidential daily reports sent to the subscribers, are incidental to the local services performed by the employee. The records, reports and the service contract have no value of their own. They are not Defendant’s objective and Defendant does not sell them as goods. Their preparation and transmission incident to a business whose purpose does not comprise the production of goods at all, do not constitute engaging in the production of ‘goods.’” 390 F.2d at 77, 78 [citations omitted].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The burden is not sustained by pointing to some small incidental interstate activity of a fundamentally intrastate business. Plaintiff must establish that Defendant’s employees spend a substantial portion of their time engaging in interstate commerce or regularly engage in the production of goods for interstate commerce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parks v. Puckett“[i]n determining coverage, it is immaterial whether the employee is hired by one engaged in an interstate business, since it is the activities of the employee and not of the employer which are decisive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hiar v. Hingston Bbj
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.