Walling v. Sternberg Dredging Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1984
4 federal appellate · 1 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.
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on Associated Press v. United States · Clyde v. Broderick · Walling v. Patton-Tulley Transp. Co. · Slover v. Wathen · Walling v. Bay State Dredging & Contracting 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n employee should be regarded as employed as a seaman if he performs, as master or subject to the authority, direction, and control of the master aboard a vessel, services which are rendered primarily as an aid in the operation of such vessel as a means of transportation. .”
1 later decision 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.