Mitchell v. Budd’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
80 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 127 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably Kelly v. Zamarello (1971), Richard A. Williams and Alfred S. Trask v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., Intervenor. Democratic Central Committee of the District of Columbia, Leonard N. Bebchick and Daniel W. Gottlieb v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission, D.C. Transit System, Inc., Intervenor. D.C. Transit System, Inc. v. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Commission (1969)
80 federal appellate · 8 district · 6 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
reviewedthe decision below (from Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on Addison v. Holly Hill Fruit Products, Inc. · Gray v. Powell · Maneja v. Waialua Agricultural Co. · Pennsylvania v. Nelson
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 127 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“fulfills his role when he makes a reasoned”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“of tobacco were employed in agriculture. The Court decided that they were not: 15 (T)he bulking operation is a process which changes the natural state of the freshly cured tobacco as significantly as milling changes sugar cane. As indicated above, the bulking process changes and improves the leaf in many ways and turns it into an industrial product ... a process that results in such important changes is”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“more akin to manufacturing than to agriculture.”
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.