Walling v. Wall Wire Products Co.’s Empirical Analysis
161 F.2d 470 · 1947
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 5 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2021
8 federal appellate · 5 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.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Walling US v. Helmerich & Payne · Walling US v. Youngerman-Reynolds Hardwood Co · Walling v. A. H. Belo Corp. · Walling US v. Harnischfeger Corporation
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Except as otherwise provided in this section, no employer shall employ any of his employees ... for a workweek longer than forty hours unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.”
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.