Morris v. McComb’s Empirical Analysis
332 U.S. 422 · 1947
Citation profile
193 federal appellate · 48 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 479 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2025 · most notably Thomas Usc v. Wichita Coca-Cola Bottling Company (1992), Foremost Dairies, Inc. v. Ivey (1953)
193 federal appellate · 48 district · 31 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
reviewedWalling v. Morris (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 49 U.S.C. § 301
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · Phillips v. Walling US · United States v. Yellow Cab Co. · Mabee v. White Plains Publishing Co. · Levinson v. Spector Motor Service
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 479 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Apparently in the normal operation of the business, these strictly interstate commerce trips were distributed generally throughout the year and their performance was shared indiscriminately by the drivers and was mingled with the performance of other like driving services rendered by them otherwise than in interstate commerce. These trips were thus a natural, integral and apparently inseparable part of the common carrier service of the petitioner and of his drivers.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * it is `the character of the activities rather than the proportion of either the employee's time or of his activities that determines the actual need for the Commission's power to establish reasonable requirements with respect to qualifications, maximum hours of service, safety of operation and equipment.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The provisions of section 207 of this title [regulating overtime] shall not apply with respect to— (1) any employee with respect to whom the Secretary of Transportation has power to establish qualifications and maximum hours of service pursuant to the provisions of section 31502 of Title 49[J”
5 later decisions 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.