Biggs v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1 F.3d 1537 · 1993
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 11 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably 30 Cal. 4th 528 - White v. Davis (2003), Bureerong v. Uvawas (1996)
17 federal appellate · 11 district · 12 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 28 U.S.C. § 1291 · 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 251 (Employee Commuting Flexibility Act of 1996) · 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 29 U.S.C. § 260
Relies on Will v. Michigan Department of State Police · Udall v. Tallman · National League of Cities v. Usery · Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority · New York v. United States
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Section 206(b) ] directs every employer to pay the minimum wage. The obligation kicks in once an employee has done covered work in any workweek. To us, ‘shall pay’ plainly connotes shall make a payment. If a payday has passed without payment, the employer cannot have met his obligation to ‘pay.’”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“in order to determine whether the statute of limitations has begun to run, the amount of unpaid wages and liquidated damages to be awarded, and how much prejudgment interest has been accrued. The due date, and with it when the employee actually gets paid, would become a moving target. Such a framework would contravene our obligation to construe the FLSA to the furthest reaches consistent with Congress's intent to protect employees, Mitchell, 358 U.S. at 211 , 79 S.Ct. at 264 , and run counter to the purpose of the FLSA to”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[The FLSA] constitutes a Congressional recognition that [the] failure to pay the statutory minimum on time may be so detrimental to maintenance of the minimum standard of living “necessary for health, efficiency, and general well-being of workers” and to the free flow of commerce, that double payment must be made in the event of delay in order to insure restoration of the worker to that minimum standard of well being.”
2 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.