Northwest Airlines, Inc. v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
185 F.2d 74 · 1950
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably United States v. Feaster (1969), Fruco Const. Co. v. McClelland (1951)
17 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Powell v. United States Cartridge Co. · 76 F. Supp. 121 - Jackson v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. · 70 F. Supp. 501 - Jackson v. Northwest Airlines, Inc. · Jackson v. Northwest Airlines, Inc.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“more than a tenuous, negligible and remote relationship to the [employer's] transportation activities,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any employee of a carrier by air subject to the provisions of title II of the Railway Labor Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““In any action commenced prior to or on or after May 14, 1947 to recover unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime compensation, or liquidated damages, under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, if the employer shows to the satisfaction of the court that the act or omission giving rise to such action was in good faith and that he had reasonable grounds for believing that his act or omission was not a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, the court may, in its sound discretion, award no liquidated damages or award any amount thereof not to exceed the amount specified in section 216(b) of this title.””
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.