Mitchell v. C. W. Vollmer & Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
326 federal appellate · 58 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 558 later decisions (16 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2022 · most notably Gulf Oil Corporation v. Copp Paving Company Inc (1974), Mitchell v. Lublin, McGaughy & Associates (1959)
326 federal appellate · 58 district · 15 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
reviewedVan Klaveren v. Killian-House Co. (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · New York Central Railroad Company v. Sarah White · McLeod v. Threlkeld · Ex Parte Barber
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 558 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * given a liberal construction * * *”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(s) ‘Enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce’ means any of the following in the activities of which employees are so engaged, including employees handling, selling or otherwise working on goods that have been moved in or produced for commerce by any person: “(3) any establishment of any such enterprise, except establishments and enterprises referred to in other paragraphs of this subsection, which has employees engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce if the annual gross volume of sales of such enterprise is not less than $1,000,000;””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“(Emphasis supplied.) 32 In Vollmer, the court held that employees engaged in the construction of a lock and canal which was intended to form part of an interstate waterway and which was designed as an alternate route to an inadequate existing lock and canal were engaged in commerce within the meaning of the Act in that it was”
2 later decisions 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.