Walling v. W. D. Haden Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that employees in the clamshell dredging industry were not exempt because their “dominant employment [was] clearly the industrial one, the production of shells,” and “[t]he maritime work [was] incidental and occasional”
• “The entire Act is pervaded by the idea that what each employee actually does determines its application to him.”
• words of FLSA seaman exemption “warn us to look to what the employees do, and not to rest on a mere matter of a name, or the place of their work”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lynn Martin, Secretary of Labor v. Leslie N. Bedell and Blue Water Marine, Catering, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1992-03-25· cited 92×
• David Stevens v. Seacoast Company, Inc. And M/v Elena S
  Fifth Circuit· 1969-08-13· cited 43×
• Lincoln Mills of Alabama v. Textile Workers Union of America, CIO
  Fifth Circuit· 1956-01-31· cited 41×
• James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Harry Jaffe
  Fifth Circuit· 1958-12-02· cited 37×
• Hewitt v. Helix Engy Solutions Grp
  Fifth Circuit· 2021-09-09· cited 32×
• Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor v. Petroleum Treaters, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1989-08-25· cited 25×
• Sternberg Dredging Co. v. Walling
  Eighth Circuit· 1946-12-16· cited 25×
• Owens Ex Rel. SeaRiver Maritime, Inc. v. SeaRiver Maritime, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 2001-11-27· cited 18×
• Bailey v. Pilots' Ass'n for the Bay & River Delaware
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 1976-02-06· cited 18×
• Keith Coffin v. Blessey Marine Services, In
  Fifth Circuit· 2014-11-13· cited 16×
• McLaughlin v. Boston Harbor Cruise Lines, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2005-08-17· cited 15×
• Larry Worthington, Roger Cameron, David Davey and Gerald Kent, Plaintiffs- Cross-Appellees v. Icicle Seafoods, Inc., a Washington Corporation, Cross
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-10-15· cited 15×
• Godard v. Alabama Pilot, Inc.
  S.D. Alabama· 2007-04-10· cited 13×
• Mitchell v. Trade Winds Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1961-04-20· cited 13×
• Kyle Halle v. Galliano Marine Service, LLC
  Fifth Circuit· 2017-04-19· cited 11×
• James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Crotty Brothers Dallas, Inc.
  Fifth Circuit· 1971-10-19· cited 10×
• Virgil Carlson, Frank Kurth, Harold Hagen, Walter Shermer, Gary Piekarczyk v. City of Minneapolis, Minnesota
  Eighth Circuit· 1991-02-08· cited 10×
• Mitchell v. Stinson
  First Circuit· 1954-12-03· cited 10×
• McComb v. Consolidated Fisheries Co.
  D. Delaware· 1948-01-30· cited 9×
• Larry Worthington, Roger Cameron, David Davey and Gerald Kent, Plaintiffs- Cross-Appellees v. Icicle Seafoods, Inc., a Washington Corporation, Cross
  Ninth Circuit· 1985-04-01· cited 8×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• International Stevedoring Co. v. Haverty
  Supreme Court· 1926-10-18· cited 252×
• Kibadeaux v. Standard Dredging Co.
  Fifth Circuit· 1936-02-03· cited 52×
• Pariser v. City of New York
  Second Circuit· 1945-01-03· cited 35×
• Butler v. Ellis
  Fourth Circuit· 1930-12-19· cited 30×
• Walling v. Bay State Dredging & Contracting Co.
  First Circuit· 1945-05-09· cited 27×
• City of Los Angeles v. United Dredging Co.
  Ninth Circuit· 1926-11-01· cited 17×
• Walling v. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co.
  Seventh Circuit· 1945-04-24· cited 11×