149 Madison Ave Corporation v. Asselta’s Empirical Analysis
331 U.S. 199 · 1947
Citation profile
113 federal appellate · 24 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 238 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2021 · most notably Bay Ridge Operating Co. v. Aaron (1948), Mirabal v. General Motors Acceptance Corp. (1976)
113 federal appellate · 24 district · 14 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
reviewedAsselta v. 149 Madison Ave. Corp. (from Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Walling US v. Helmerich & Payne · Walling US v. Youngerman-Reynolds Hardwood Co · Walling v. A. H. Belo Corp. · Walling US v. Harnischfeger Corporation
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 238 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(I)n testing the validity of a wage agreement under the Act, the courts are required to look beyond that which the parties have purported to do.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The payment of ‘overtime’ com- . pensation for non-overtime work raises strong doubt as to the integrity of the hourly rate upon the basis ■ of which the ‘overtime’ compensation is calculated.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no employer shall employ any of his employees who is engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce for a workweek longer than forty hours, unless such employee receives compensation for his employment in excess of the hours above specified at a rate not less than one and one-half times the regular rate at which he is employed.”
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.