Mitchell v. Royal Baking Co.’s Empirical Analysis
219 F.2d 532 · 1955
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently April 1973 · most notably Montalvo v. Tower Life Building (1970), Mitchell v. Jaffe (1958)
26 federal appellate · 3 district ·
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)
Relies on Ex Parte Barber · Fleming v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Stewart-Jordan Distributing Co. v. Tobin · Walling v. American Stores Co. · Rolland v. United States
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * No ritual of placing goods in a warehouse can be allowed to defeat that purpose. The entry of the goods into the warehouse interrupts but does not necessarily terminate their interstate journey. A temporary pause in their transit does not mean that they are no longer ‘in commerce’ within the meaning of the Act. * * *»”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.