McKinney v. Kelley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “and” was disjunctive in the context of a statute that required an employer to pay overtime wages to employees “engaged in the ginning and compressing of cotton”
• interpreting the phrase \ginning and compressing of cotton” to mean \the performance of either or both”
• “the word ‘and’ is not a word with a single meaning, for chameleonlike, it takes its color from its surroundings”
• per curiam opinion denying petition for rehearing

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

59 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Heritage Resources, Inc. v. NationsBank
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-03-21· cited 892×
• United States v. Claude John Scallion, Raymond Lynn Buckelew, James Laney Jenkins and Judson Lee Drane
  Fifth Circuit· 1977-03-18· cited 78×
• Reese Brothers, Inc. v. United States
  Third Circuit· 2006-05-09· cited 77×
• Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Adams
  Fifth Circuit· 1975-05-22· cited 66×
• Russell v. Hodges
  Second Circuit· 1972-12-06· cited 63×
• In Re Johnson
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1977-06-30· cited 60×
• Wilburn S. Bruce v. First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Conroe, Inc.
  First Circuit· 1988-02-17· cited 52×
• State v. Boykin
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1992-05-19· cited 51×
• Eastern States Petroleum Corporation v. William P. Rogers, Attorney General of the United States
  D.C. Circuit· 1960-06-07· cited 45×
• Amoco Production Co. v. First Baptist Church of Pyote
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 1979-02-14· cited 44×
• United States v. Jerry Meeker
  Seventh Circuit· 1983-03-03· cited 41×
• Gazo v. Gazo
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1997-05-23· cited 40×
• James Weir v. United States
  Eighth Circuit· 1962-11-27· cited 36×
• Cabot Corp. v. Brown
  Texas Supreme Court· 1987-12-09· cited 36×
• Mulky v. United States
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1982-10-01· cited 33×
• Koelfgen v. Jackson
  D. Minnesota· 1973-03-19· cited 32×
• United States v. Bernard Tolkow
  Second Circuit· 1976-03-26· cited 31×
• United States v. Brennick
  D. Massachusetts· 1995-11-13· cited 31×
• United States v. Sellers
  Eighth Circuit· 1979-08-07· cited 26×
• Clark v. United States
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-10-27· cited 26×