Avant v. Bowles’s Empirical Analysis
139 F.2d 702 · 1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on Morgan v. United States · Bi-Metallic Investment Company v. State Board of Equalization · Opp Cotton Mills, Inc. v. Administrator of the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of Labor · Porter v. Investors Syndicate · 118 N.J. Eq. 504 - State Ex Rel. State Board of Milk Control v. Newark Milk Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a rule of conduct applies to more than a few people it is impracticable that every one should have a direct voice in its adoption. The Constitution does not require all public acts to be done in town meeting or an assembly of the whole. General statutes within the state power are passed that affect the person or property of individuals, sometimes to the point of ruin, without giving them a chance to be heard. Their rights are protected in the only way that they can be in a complex society, by their power, immediate or remote, over those who make the rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowles v. Willingham“as in his judgment will be generally fair and equitable and will effectuate the purposes”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bowles v. Willingham
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.