Steiner v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
287 federal appellate · 117 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 799 later decisions (23 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2024 · most notably Barrentine v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc. (1981), IBP, Inc. v. Alvarez (2005)
287 federal appellate · 117 district · 12 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
reviewedSteiner v. Mitchell (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 208 · 29 U.S.C. § 251 (Employee Commuting Flexibility Act of 1996) · 29 U.S.C. § 252 · 29 U.S.C. § 254
Relies on Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · Briggs v. Elliott · Steiner v. Mitchell · Mitchell v. King Packing Co.
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 799 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) walking, riding, or traveling to and from the actual place of performance of the principal activity or activities which such employee is employed to perform, and (2) activities which are preliminary to or postliminary to said principal activity or activities, which occur either prior to the time on any particular workday at which such employee commences, or subsequent to the time on any particular workday at which he ceases, such principal activity or activities.”
45 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an integral and indispensable part of the principal activities for which covered workmen are employed,”
24 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Hours Worked.-In determining for the purposes of [the minimum-wage and maximum-hours sections] of this title the hours for which an employee is employed, there shall be excluded any time spent in changing clothes or washing at the beginning or end of each workday which was excluded from measured working time during the week involved by the express terms of or by custom or practice under a bona fide collective-bargaining agreement applicable to the particular employee." 63 Stat. 911 , 29 U.S.C. § 203 ( o ).”
8 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.