Mayhew v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis

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9 federal appellate · 7 district · 1 state decisions

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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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) An employee employed on a salary basis may have hours of work which fluctuate from week to week and the salary may be paid [to] him pursuant to an understanding with his employer that he will receive such fixed amount as straight time pay for whatever hours he is called upon to work in a workweek, whether few or many. Where there is a clear mutual understanding of the parties that the fixed salary is compensation (apart from overtime premiums) for the hours worked each workweek, whatever their number, rather than for working 40 hours or some other fixed weekly work period, such a salary arrangement is permitted by the [FLSA] if the amount of the salary is sufficient to provide compensation to the employee at a rate not less than the applicable minimum wage rate for every hour worked in those workweeks in which the number of hours he works is greatest, and if he receives extra compensation, in addition to such salary, for all overtime hours worked at a rate not less than one-half his regular rate of pay. Since the salary in such a situation is intended to compensate the employee at straight time rates for whatever hours are worked in the workweek, the regular rate of the employee will vary from week to week and is determined by dividing the number of hours worked in the workweek into the amount of the salary to obtain the applicable hourly rate for the week. Payment for overtime hours at one-half such rate in addition to the salary satisfies the overtime pay requirement be”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Urnikis-Negro v. American Family Property Services · 779 F. Supp. 2d 516 - Kennedy v. a Touch of Patience Shared Housing, Inc.

2. “if it is clear from the employee's actions that he or she understood the payment plan in spite of after-the-fact verbal contentions otherwise,”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. John R. Roy Gary Waller David Rhoten Crystal Galloway Gary W. Holmes Eric T. Bushey M.T. Hammond John R. Lillard David H. Dixon Gary Semones Richard McManus Jason Hentz Patricia H. Dupuis Curtis Scott Ward Mike Tanner Gary A. Seibert Robert McKeever John L. Windhorn Bobby Daggerhart Melissa P. Harrison Jay F. Burton Teresa Hill Dwight C. Nolff Thad C. Miller David W. Shull David E. David Patricia H. Barnett Joseph J. Rooney Kevin G. Hicks Robbie Kubler Dalton E. Shull, Jr. John v. Ruff, Jr. Eric McFarland James Garcia Cynthia D. Plant Robert D. McClanahan George E. Hardy Fern Jenkins Mildred H. Miller Linda W. Semones Michael K. Kaczmarek Michael G. Jones Joey Keisler Rhett Loudenback Joseph A. Bastedo, Sr. David C. Hunter Loretta Hunter Betty Koerner J. Stuart Platt Evelyn J. Williams Jacqueline Fink Jonathon L. Humphrey Carroll W. Bledsoe, Jr. Jonathan M. Sebring Alice H. Bennett Tony L. Wingard Kenneth L. White, III Morris F. Anderson Stephen C. Sightler Jeff Barchus Anthony Bruce Taylor Tami Leigh Steinlage, and Daniel C. Force B.L. Burnes John W. Smith v. County of Lexington, South Carolina, John R. Roy Gary Waller David Rhoten Crystal Galloway Gary W. Holmes Eric T. Bushey M.T. Hammond John R. Lillard David H. Dixon Gary Semones Richard McManus Jason Hentz Patricia H. Dupuis Curtis Scott Ward Mike Tanner Gary A. Seibert Robert McKeever John L. Windhorn Bobby Daggerhart Melissa P. Harrison Jay F. Burton Teresa Hill Dwight C. Nolff Thad C. Miller David W. Shull David E. David Patricia H. Barnett Joseph J. Rooney Kevin G. Hicks Robbie Kubler Dalton E. Shull, Jr. John v. Ruff, Jr. Eric McFarland James Garcia Cynthia D. Plant Robert D. McClanahan George E. Hardy Fern Jenkins Mildred H. Miller Linda W. Semones Michael K. Kaczmarek Michael G. Jones Joey Keisler Rhett Loudenback Joseph A. Bastedo, Sr. David C. Hunter Loretta Hunter Betty Koerner J. Stuart Platt Evelyn J. Williams Jacqueline Fink Jonathon L. Humphrey Carroll W. Bledsoe, Jr. Jonathan M. Sebring Alice H. Bennett Tony L. Wingard Kenneth L. White, III Morris F. Anderson Stephen C. Sightler Jeff Barchus Anthony Bruce Taylor Tami Leigh Steinlage, and Daniel C. Force B.L. Burnes John W. Smith v. County of Lexington, South Carolina · Roy

3. “he knew he would never be paid more than his fixed salary no matter how many hours he worked, nor would he be docked if he worked fewer than the expected 160 hours per work period.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. John R. Roy Gary Waller David Rhoten Crystal Galloway Gary W. Holmes Eric T. Bushey M.T. Hammond John R. Lillard David H. Dixon Gary Semones Richard McManus Jason Hentz Patricia H. Dupuis Curtis Scott Ward Mike Tanner Gary A. Seibert Robert McKeever John L. Windhorn Bobby Daggerhart Melissa P. Harrison Jay F. Burton Teresa Hill Dwight C. Nolff Thad C. Miller David W. Shull David E. David Patricia H. Barnett Joseph J. Rooney Kevin G. Hicks Robbie Kubler Dalton E. Shull, Jr. John v. Ruff, Jr. Eric McFarland James Garcia Cynthia D. Plant Robert D. McClanahan George E. Hardy Fern Jenkins Mildred H. Miller Linda W. Semones Michael K. Kaczmarek Michael G. Jones Joey Keisler Rhett Loudenback Joseph A. Bastedo, Sr. David C. Hunter Loretta Hunter Betty Koerner J. Stuart Platt Evelyn J. Williams Jacqueline Fink Jonathon L. Humphrey Carroll W. Bledsoe, Jr. Jonathan M. Sebring Alice H. Bennett Tony L. Wingard Kenneth L. White, III Morris F. Anderson Stephen C. Sightler Jeff Barchus Anthony Bruce Taylor Tami Leigh Steinlage, and Daniel C. Force B.L. Burnes John W. Smith v. County of Lexington, South Carolina, John R. Roy Gary Waller David Rhoten Crystal Galloway Gary W. Holmes Eric T. Bushey M.T. Hammond John R. Lillard David H. Dixon Gary Semones Richard McManus Jason Hentz Patricia H. Dupuis Curtis Scott Ward Mike Tanner Gary A. Seibert Robert McKeever John L. Windhorn Bobby Daggerhart Melissa P. Harrison Jay F. Burton Teresa Hill Dwight C. Nolff Thad C. Miller David W. Shull David E. David Patricia H. Barnett Joseph J. Rooney Kevin G. Hicks Robbie Kubler Dalton E. Shull, Jr. John v. Ruff, Jr. Eric McFarland James Garcia Cynthia D. Plant Robert D. McClanahan George E. Hardy Fern Jenkins Mildred H. Miller Linda W. Semones Michael K. Kaczmarek Michael G. Jones Joey Keisler Rhett Loudenback Joseph A. Bastedo, Sr. David C. Hunter Loretta Hunter Betty Koerner J. Stuart Platt Evelyn J. Williams Jacqueline Fink Jonathon L. Humphrey Carroll W. Bledsoe, Jr. Jonathan M. Sebring Alice H. Bennett Tony L. Wingard Kenneth L. White, III Morris F. Anderson Stephen C. Sightler Jeff Barchus Anthony Bruce Taylor Tami Leigh Steinlage, and Daniel C. Force B.L. Burnes John W. Smith v. County of Lexington, South Carolina · Roy