Mitchell v. Greinetz’s Empirical Analysis
235 F.2d 621 · 1956
Citation profile
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Lamon v. City of Shawnee (1992), Mumbower v. Callicott (1975)
29 federal appellate · 6 district · 6 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 208 · 29 U.S.C. § 214 · 29 U.S.C. § 217
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize · Armour & Co. v. Wantock · Steiner v. Mitchell · Alstate Const Co v. Durkin
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * because facts differ decided cases are not controlling and are helpful only as they point the way. Some of the factors to consider are whether idle time is spent predominantly for the employer’s or employee’s benefit, and whether the time is of sufficient duration and taken under such conditions that it is available to employees for their own use and purposes disassociated from their employment time. The cases also make it clear that the answers to these questions must be gleaned from all the facts and circumstances of each case.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are entitled to great weight and should not lightly be set aside.”
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.