Walling US v. Helmerich & Payne’s Empirical Analysis
323 U.S. 37 · 1944
Citation profile
341 federal appellate · 95 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 837 later decisions (42 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2023 · most notably United States v. W. T. Grant Co. (1953), Powell v. McCormack (1969)
341 federal appellate · 95 district · 54 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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
reviewedWalling v. Helmerich & Payne, Inc. (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Hecht Co. v. Bowles · Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · St. Pierre v. United States · Walling v. A. H. Belo Corp.
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 837 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Voluntary discontinuance of an alleged illegal activity does not operate to remove a case from the ambit of judicial power.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]t is no answer that the artificial regular rate was a product of contract or that it was in excess of the statutory minimum. The [FLSA] clearly contemplates the setting of the regular rate in a bona fide manner through wage negotiations between employer and employee, provided that the statutory minimum is respected. But this freedom of contract does not include the right to compute the regular rate in a wholly unrealistic and artificial manner so as to negate the statutory purposes. Even when wages exceed the minimum prescribed by Congress, the parties to the contract must respect the statutory policy of requiring the employer to pay one and one-half times the regular hourly rate for all hours actually worked in excess of 40. Any other conclusion in this case would exalt ingenuity over reality and would open the door to insidious disregard of the rights protected by the Act.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.”
4 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.