Rachal v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
321 F.2d 449 · 1963
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2000
9 federal appellate · 3 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. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 49 U.S.C. § 1301
Relies on Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Arnold v. Ben Kanowsky, Inc. · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · Kennedy v. Silas Mason Co. · Mitchell v. Kentucky Finance Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“these exemptions are to be narrowly construed against the employers seeking to assert them and their application limited to those establishments plainly and unmistakably within their terms and spirit,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hillier v. Minas
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.