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← 596 U.S. 450 - Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon

Southwest Airlines Co. v. Saxon’s Empirical Analysis

2022

Citation profile

54
cited by 54 later decisions
7
cited 7 times by the Supreme Court
4
states following
June 2026
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 15 U.S.C. § 18 (§ 7 of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 9 U.S.C. § 1 (Federal Arbitration Act)

Relies on Perrin v. United States · United States v. Detroit Timber & Lumber Co. · Circuit City Stores, Inc. v. Adams · McDermott International, Inc. v. Wilander · Gulf Oil Corporation v. Copp Paving Company Inc

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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “loading or unloading of an interstate shipment by the employees of a carrier is so closely related to interstate transportation as to be practically part of it;”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “[t]o be 'engaged in' interstate commerce, a class of workers 'must at least play a direct and "necessary role in the free flow of goods”
    3 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.