Bowman v. Pace Co.’s Empirical Analysis
119 F.2d 858 · 1941
Citation profile
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Gulf King Shrimp Company v. W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor (1969), Walling v. American Needlecrafts, Inc. (1943)
18 federal appellate · 8 district · 3 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. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on Wells Fargo & Co. v. Taylor · Robinson v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad · Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Rahn · Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. v. Bond · Western Express Co. v. Smeltzer
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Tf one has not hired another expressly, nor suffered or permitted him to work under circumstances where an obligation to pay him will be implied, they are not employer and employee under the Act.’ There would seem to follow from this negation, an affirmation that if one does suffer or permit another to work under circumstances where an obligation to pay him will be implied, they arc employer and employee under the Act.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(d) ‘Employer’ includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employee. * * * “(e) ‘Employee’ includes any individual employed by an employer. * * * “(g) ‘Employ’ includes to suffer or permit to work.””
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.