Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation v. Local No. 6167, United Mine Workers of America’s Empirical Analysis
325 U.S. 161 · 1945
Citation profile
121 federal appellate · 45 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 388 later decisions (28 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2023 · most notably Chevron U. S. A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (1984), Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. (1946)
121 federal appellate · 45 district · 28 state decisions — followed in 11 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
reviewedLocal No. 6167 v. Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize · Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Order of Railroad Telegraphers v. Railway Express Agency, Inc. · Sunshine Anthracite Coal Co. v. Adkins
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 388 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“employees are not to be deprived of the benefits of the [FLSA] simply because they are well paid”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hard to see how the long-range interests of labor itself are advanced by a holding that there is no mode by which it may bind itself to any specified future conduct, however fairly bargained”). 17 . Tennessee Coal, Iron & R.R. Co. v. Muscoda Local No. 123, 321 U.S. 590 , 64 S.Ct. 698 , 88 L.Ed. 949 (1944); Jewell Ridge Coal Corp. v. Local No. 6167, UMW, 325 U.S. 161 , 65 S.Ct. 1063 , 89 L.Ed. 1534 (1945); Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co., 328 U.S. 680, 683 , 66 S.Ct. 1187 , 90 L.Ed. 1515 (1946) (collectively,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The Fair Labor Standards Act was not designed to codify or perpetuate [industry] customs and contracts. . . . Congress intended, instead, to achieve a uniform national policy of guaranteeing compensation for all work or employment engaged in by employees covered by the Act. Any custom or contract falling short of that basic policy, like an agreement to pay less than the minimum wage requirements, cannot be utilized to deprive employees of their statutory rights.”
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.