Walling v. Connecticut Co.’s Empirical Analysis
154 F.2d 552 · 1946
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2017
10 federal appellate · 4 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
Relies on Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Phillips v. Walling US · Markham v. Cabell · Roland Electrical Co. v. Walling · Mabee v. White Plains Publishing 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would mean that, no matter in what business, however extraneous to its functioning as a `local trolley carrier,' defendant engaged, those employed in that extraneous business would be exempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Gieg v. Ddr Inc C
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.