Slover v. Wathen’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.2d 258 · 1944
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 1969 · most notably Durkin v. Joyce Agency, Inc. (1953), Mitchell v. John R. Cowley & Bro. (1961)
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · McLeod v. Threlkeld · Overstreet v. North Shore Corp.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Slover, as night watchman for Patapsco, was also admittedly employed,to safeguard the barges from fire, theft, storms, leakage or other physical damage while the barges were moored at the pier. It is therefore immaterial that Slover did none of the actual repair work. His acknowledged duties as watchman for Patapsco’s premises were so closely related to Patapsco’s business of repairing barges that he must be considered as being ‘engaged in the production of goods for commerce’ within the meaning of the Act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.