Walling v. General Industries Co.’s Empirical Analysis
155 F.2d 711 · 1946
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 2001 · most notably Walling US v. General Industries Co (1947), Ale v. Tennessee Valley Authority (2001)
17 federal appellate · 1 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 207
Relies on Walling v. Yeakley · Fletcher v. Grinnell Bros. · Smith v. Porter · Ralph Knight, Inc. v. Mantel · Stanger v. Glenn L. Martin 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is an essential of executive duties . . . that there be active participation in controlled supervision and management of the business.”
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.