Sun Pub. Co. v. Walling’s Empirical Analysis
140 F.2d 445 · 1944
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2008 · most notably Oklahoma Press Pub Co v. Walling US News Printing Co (1946), Mabee v. White Plains Publishing Co. (1946)
17 federal appellate · 5 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. § 215 · 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Schneider v. State · Near v. State of Minnesota Olson · United States v. Darby · Lovell v. City of Griffin · Murdock v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is, however, a regulation which the Administrator (Fair Labor Standards) was empowered to adopt by the express sanction of Congress, and we have been advised repeatedly that such administrative decisions must be upheld except in cases of flagrant abuse. (Citing cases)””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bowles v. Babar
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.