Mentzel v. Diamond’s Empirical Analysis
167 F.2d 299 · 1948
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1974
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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
Relies on Fishgold v. Sullivan Drydock & Repair Corp. · Trailmobile Co. v. Whirls · Gauweiler v. Elastic Stop Nut Corp. of America · MacLaughlin v. Union Switch & Signal 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Vacation advantages accorded employees are certainly no less to he prized than such benefits as pensions, bonuses, and participation in insurance programs ; and the Congrestional history of [the Act] makes it clear that the statute was intended to protect these other rights. “In view of these considerations, wo can see no reason why the protection of the [Act] in appropriate cases should not embrace vacation rights which the employee has earned and would have received as a matter of course but for his induction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Barry v. Smith“is protected, while away, to the same extent as if he had been either continuously on the job in the plant or away on furlough or leave of absence for some personal reason.”
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.