Walling v. W. D. Haden Co.’s Empirical Analysis
153 F.2d 196 · 1946
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably Lincoln Mills of Alabama v. Textile Workers Union of America (1956), Stevens v. Seacoast Co. (1969)
30 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 33 U.S.C. § 901 · 33 U.S.C. § 902
Relies on International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty · Kibadeaux v. Standard Dredging Co. · Pariser v. City of New York · Butler v. Ellis · Walling v. Bay State Dredging & Contracting Co.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he entire Act is pervaded by the idea that what each employee actually does determines its application to him”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We lay no emphasis on the fact that, these men are not ‘employed’, in the sense of hired, as seamen usually are, 'by sighing articles. The question is of the work they do after being hired. And it is of a mixed kind. Some of it, as we have pointed out above, is .of a nautical kind, having to do with the management of the dredge boat and barges as vessels; and some is the mining and handling of shells as an industrial operation carried on by-means of a floating mining plant. The dominant employment is clearly' the industrial one, the production of shells. The maritime work is incidental and occasional, taking'but a small fraction of the work time! These employees; while working on a boat anchored in navigable waters and in admiralty jurisdiction, are principally employed not as seamen but as shell miners. They are employed more in industry than in ship-work, and are not exempt.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any employee employed in the catching, taking, harvesting, cultivating, or farming * * * including * * * processing * * *”
2 later decisions 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.