Walling v. Consumers Co.’s Empirical Analysis
149 F.2d 626 · 1945
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably West Kentucky Coal Co. v. Walling (1946), Keen v. Mid-Continent Petroleum Corporation (1945)
16 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 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. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 29 U.S.C. § 217 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Tennessee Coal Iron Co v. Muscoda Local No 123 Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co · Stafford v. Wallace · Addison v. Holly Hill Fruit Products, Inc.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Fair Labor Standards Act was designed to include within its scope and coverage every employee ‘engaged in commerce’ except those specifically exempted therefrom, and, since the Act is in its nature remedial, it should be liberally construed so as to effectuate its humanitarian purposes; its exemptions, however, must be strictly and narrowly construed.”
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.