Scholl v. McWilliams Dredging Co.’s Empirical Analysis
169 F.2d 729 · 1948
Citation profile
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1968 · most notably Mitchell v. C. W. Vollmer & Co. (1955), James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Hodges Contracting Company and Kenneth B. Hodges (1956)
21 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 251 (Employee Commuting Flexibility Act of 1996)
Relies on Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Overstreet v. North Shore Corp. · Kennedy v. Silas Mason Co. · Bozant v. Bank of New York · Ritch v. Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce”
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.