Roy’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2023 · most notably Juan Vela (2001), 26 F. Supp. 2d 82 - Rainey v. American Forest and Paper Ass'n, Inc. (1998)
1 federal appellate · 10 district · 4 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
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Chrysler Corporation v. Brown · Corning Glass Works v. Brennan · Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority · Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... completely relieved from duty for purposes of eating regular meals” and cited 29 U.S.C. § 785.19 (a), it appears that the issue in that case was whether § 785.19(a)’s requirement that thirty minutes be allotted for meals had been observed, not whether the employees were”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The critical question, the Court has suggested, is ‘whether time is spent predominantly for the employer’s benefit or for the employee’s.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) Bona fide meal periods. Bona fide meal periods are not worktime. Bona fide meal periods do not include coffee breaks or time for snacks. These are rest periods. The employee must be completely relieved from duty for the purposes of eating regular meals. Ordinarily 30 minutes or more is long enough for a bona fide meal period. A shorter period may be long enough under special conditions. The employee is not relieved if he is required to perform any duties, whether active or inactive, while eating. For example, an office employee who is required to eat at his desk or a factory worker who is required to be at his machine is working while eating____ (b) Where no permission to leave premises. It is not necessary that an employee be permitted to leave the premises if he is otherwise completely freed from duties during the meal period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hahn v. Pima County
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.