McCrea v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
294 U.S. 23 · 1935
Citation profile
68 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2013 · most notably Griffin v. Oceanic Contractors, Inc. (1982), Royal Indemnity Co. v. United States (1941)
68 federal appellate · 12 district · 2 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedMcCrea v. United States (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hovey v. McDonald · Collie v. Fergusson · O'Hara v. Luckenbach Steamship Co. · Chas. Wolff Packing Co. v. Court of Industrial Relations of Kansas
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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“confers no right to recover double wages where the delay in payment of wages due was not in some sense arbitrary, willful, or unreasonable.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“affords a definite and reasonable procedure by which the seaman may establish his right to recover double pay where his wages are unreasonably withheld.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“for each and every day during which payment is delayed.”
2 later decisions 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.