Addison v. Huron Stevedoring Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2005
9 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 216B · 29 U.S.C. § 251 (Employee Commuting Flexibility Act of 1996) · 29 U.S.C. § 258 · 29 U.S.C. § 260 · 44 U.S.C. § 304
Relies on Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · United States v. Darby · McLeod v. Threlkeld · Ex Parte Barber · Kennedy v. Silas Mason 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But it is apparent from all of 'these cases that the good faith exercised by the employer must be of such a character that it can meet an objective test: — was his course of conduct innocently followed with an honest intention and was it pursued in the same manner as a reasonably prudent man would have acted under the same circumstances.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an employer shall not be subject to any liability ... if he pleads and proves that the act or omission complained of was in good faith in conformity with and in reliance on”
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.