Tobin v. Girard Properties, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
206 F.2d 524 · 1953
Citation profile
9 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2010
9 federal appellate ·
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) · 29 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · McLeod v. Threlkeld · 10 East 40th Street Building, Inc. v. Callus · Borden Co. v. Borella · Stoike v. First National Bank
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The cases seem clear that the mere use of the mails in sending reports across state lines is not necessarily engaging in commerce within the meaning of the Act. Rather, it is only where the interstate communication is a material part of an interstate business that such activity constitutes engaging in commerce and renders the person performing it subject to coverage under the Act. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. Broad as that definition seems to be, it can hardly be said that it includes the payroll records and the time sheets of the company, prepared by that company for its own use. Consequently we hold that plaintiffs here, as watchmen of appellee's office on the construction site, are not engaged in the production of goods for commerce. 13 We then proceed to determine whether these plaintiffs are”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test under this present act, to determine whether an employee is engaged in commerce, is not whether the employee's activities affect or indirectly relate to interstate commerce but whether they are actually in or so closely related to the movement of the commerce as to be a part of it.”
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.