Mitchell v. Lublin, McGaughy & Associates’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
357 federal appellate · 120 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 783 later decisions (7 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2021 · most notably Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation v. Secretary of Labor (1985), Mitchell v. H. B. Zachry Co. (1960)
357 federal appellate · 120 district · 22 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
reviewedMitchell v. Lublin, McGaughy & Associates (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 213 · 29 U.S.C. § 215 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 217
Relies on Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Walling v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · McLeod v. Threlkeld · Overstreet v. North Shore Corp.
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 783 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“liberally to apply to the furthest reaches consistent with congressional direction.”
20 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“are merely custodial, not educational, in nature, the FLSA should not apply to them because they are different from the other institutions that are enumerated in 29 U.S.C. Sec. 203(s)(1)(B). II 6 An employer must pay the federal minimum wage, and overtime rates for work that exceeds the federal maximum-hour ceiling, to any employee who is: (1) engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce, or (2) employed in an enterprise engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce. 29 U.S.C. Secs. 206, 207.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“whether the work is so directly and vitally related to the functioning of an instrumentality or facility of interstate commerce as to be, in practical effect, a part of it, rather than isolated, local activity.”
5 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.