Walling v. Bay State Dredging & Contracting Co.’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 346 · 1945
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Walling v. W. D. Haden Co. (1946), Harkins v. Riverboat Services, Inc. (2004)
14 federal appellate · 4 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. § 213 · 29 U.S.C. § 215 · 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 40 U.S.C. § 321
Relies on Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Phillips v. Walling US · International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty · Warren-Bradshaw Drilling Co. v. Hall · Warner v. Goltra
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““What concerns us here and now is not the scope of the class of seamen at other times and in other contexts. Our concern is to define the meaning for the purpose of a particular statute which must be read in the light of the mischief to be corrected and the end to be attained.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“that the way has been left open for the proposed Labor Standards Board [created by the FLSA] to have jurisdiction over those classes of workers who are engaged in transportation. While this may not have an unfavorable effect upon the workers engaged in transportation by water, we feel that it may conflict with the laws now in effect regarding the jurisdiction of the government machinery now set up to handle those problems. .... [W]e feel that for the present time that the [U.S. Maritime Commission’s] jurisdiction should not be hampered or impaired by any legislation that would be conflicting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Our union does not like to see any further or additional legislation enacted to cover a group of workers already so well covered, which might tend to create some confusion in labor relations, which are now on the road to practical and successful operation. Therefore, I ask on behalf of the Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, that the bill be so written as to exclude the seamen from the operation of the provisions of the bill.”
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.