Boutell v. Walling’s Empirical Analysis
327 U.S. 463 · 1946
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 9 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions (8 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2016 · most notably Idaho Sheet Metal Works, Inc. v. Wirtz (1966), Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. v. McComb (1949)
93 federal appellate · 9 district · 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedBoutell v. Walling (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Mondou v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Higgins v. Smith · Pedersen v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
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 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whatever may be the precise scope of the Commission’s ‘power to establish’ hours of service, we hold that the Commission does not have that power over the men here concerned because the Commission’s jurisdiction is limited to employees of ‘carriers’ and the record here shows that the men in question are employees of the Service Company, which is not a carrier, rather than of the Drive-Away Company, which is a carrier. This is true although the work these employees do is all supplied to the Drive-Away Company through the Service Company.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“order, regulation, or interpretation of the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division or of the Secretary of Labor . . . shall remain in effect . . . except to the extent that . . . [it] may be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“qualifications and maximum hours of service of employees of ... a motor carrier', ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.