Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. v. Keen’s Empirical Analysis
157 F.2d 310 · 1946
Citation profile
43 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Pierce v. Reynolds (1959), United States v. Klinghoffer Bros. Realty Corp. (1960)
43 federal appellate · 5 district · 10 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. § 216
Relies on Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · McLeod v. Threlkeld · Overstreet v. North Shore Corp.
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * if the halt in the movement of the goods is a convenient intermediate step in the process of getting them to their final destinations, they remain ‘in commerce’ until they reach those points. Then there is a practical continuity of movement of the goods until they reach the customers for whom they are intended. That is sufficient. Any other test would allow formalities to conceal the continuous nature of the interstate transit which constitutes commerce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where relevant evidence is within the control of the party to whose interest it would naturally be to produce it, and he fails so to do, without satisfactory explanation, and produces no evidence or weaker evidence, an inference is justifiable that it would be unfavorable to him”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“cause of action for overtime compensation accrued on each payday.”
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.