Male v. Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
240 U.S. 97 · 1916
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 9 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions (21 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1991 · most notably Neirbo Co. v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (1939), Robertson v. Railroad Labor Board (1925)
12 federal appellate · 9 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
Relies on Osborn v. President Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States · In the Matter of Albertn Moore an Infant by Next Friend · Ex parte Wisner · St Louis Ry Co v. McBride · Crawford v. Neal
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““That plaintiff is and has been for a long period of time a resident of Harris County, State of Texas; that the defendant is a non-resident corporation organized under the laws of the State of Delaware and residing therein; that defendant is doing business in the State of Texas and has its principal place of business in said State and has appointed an agent in said State for the service of citation as a part of and in connection with its application to do business in Texas; that defendant's principal place of business is located in the City of Houston, Texas, in the Southern District of Texas, and all of the acts complained of were transacted from said office, the employment and all records pertaining thereto were a part of the business of said office and occurred within the jurisdiction of this court. “That this cause of action arises out of Section 15 and 16 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (Pub. 718-65 [75] th Congress; 52 S'tat. 1060) enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America; that the effective date of said act was October 24, 1938; that the jurisdiction of this cause of action lies in this court by reason of Section 41(8), Title 28, U.S. C.A. 24, and by reason of Section 16 of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; that this court is also granted jurisdiction of this cause by virtue of the provisions of Title 28 U.S.C.A. Section 112 providing that this Court shall have original jurisdiction in cases where there is a diversi”
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.