Mitchell v. Raines’s Empirical Analysis
238 F.2d 186 · 1956
Citation profile
74 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2005 · most notably Mitchell v. Lublin, McGaughy & Associates (1959), United Nuclear Corp. v. General Atomic Co. (1980)
74 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on United States v. Darby · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Mitchell v. C. W. Vollmer & Co. · Mabee v. White Plains Publishing Co. · D. A. Schulte, Inc. v. Gangi
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If he did not know, it was because he did not look, or looking, did not see, or want to see what was so plainly there.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“were regularly used in the transmission of United States postal matter and for the transportation of goods to and from points in Georgia and other states [positively established] [t]heir character as direct instrumentalities of interstate commerce * * *.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Austford v. Goldberg
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.