Mitchell v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
September 1961
most recently cited
4 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 213
Relies on Mitchell v. Kentucky Finance Co. · H. J. Boisseau v. James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ts holding is that where it has been established by pre-amendment [i. e., pre-1949] interpretation that an industry is not retail, unless that classification was due to an application of the business use test, that industry is not now exempt.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goldberg v. Roberts“pre-amendment [i. e., pre-1949] status of letter shops * * * does not indicate that they are not retail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goldberg v. Roberts“by their nature `outside the retail concept.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Goldberg v. Roberts
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.