Mitchell v. Stinson’s Empirical Analysis
217 F.2d 210 · 1954
Citation profile
13 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2005
13 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. § 202 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 29 U.S.C. § 215
Relies on Phillips v. Walling US · Powell v. United States Cartridge Co. · Walling v. W. D. Haden Co. · McComb v. Consolidated Fisheries 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he words of the exemption are: “Employees employed, as seamen”. The italicized words mean something; they are not mere tautology. They warn us to look to what the employees do, and not to rest on a mere matter of a name, or the place of their work.... [W]hat he does is expressly made the test of exclusion.”
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.