Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. v. McComb’s Empirical Analysis
337 U.S. 755 · 1949
Citation profile
334 federal appellate · 21 district · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 535 later decisions (22 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2022 · most notably Erlenbaugh v. United States (1972), Powell v. United States Cartridge Co. (1950)
334 federal appellate · 21 district · 53 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 12 U.S.C. § 1141J (Agricultural Marketing Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 213
Relies on Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize · Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Armour & Co. v. Wantock · Atlantic Cleaners & Dyers, Inc. v. United States · Markham v. Cabell
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 535 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“includes: (F)arming in all its branches and among other things includes the cultivation and tillage of the soil, dairying, the production, cultivation, growing, and harvesting of any agricultural or horticultural commodities (including commodities defined as agricultural commodities in Section 1141j(g) of Title 12 (Section 15(g) of the Agricultural Marketing Act, as amended)), the raising of livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals or poultry. . . . The secondary definition of”
35 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether the activity in the particular case is carried on as part of the agricultural function or is separately organized as an independent productive activity.”
19 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Both in the employments which the Fair Labor Standards Act covers and in the exemptions it makes, the Congress has cast upon the courts the duty of making distinctions that often are bound to be so nice as to appear arbitrary in relation to each other. A specific situation, like that presented in this case, presents a problem for construction which may with nearly equal reason be resolved one way rather than another.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.