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← 142 Conn. 437 - West v. Egan

West v. Egan’s Empirical Analysis

1955

Citation profile

37
cited by 37 later decisions
3
states following
October 2020
most recently cited

2 district · 35 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2020 · most notably Daily v. New Britain Machine Co. (1986), Gentile v. Altermatt (1975)

2 district · 35 state decisions

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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 United States v. Darby · Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia Same · Williams v. Jacksonville Terminal Co. · State v. Stoddard · Lyman v. Adorno

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

  1. “wide range in the type and quality of the service rendered”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Muffler Shop, E. Hartford v. Dept. of Labor, No. 332678 (Jul. 20, 1990) · 1990 Conn. Super. Ct. 400 - Roto-Rooter Services v. State Dept. of Labor, No. 351874 (Jul. 20, 1990)
  2. “The minimum wage law . . . should receive a liberal construction as regards beneficiaries so that it may accomplish its purpose.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 1990 Conn. Super. Ct. 400 - Roto-Rooter Services v. State Dept. of Labor, No. 351874 (Jul. 20, 1990) · 1994 Conn. Super. Ct. 4127 - Labor Department v. America's Cup, No. Cv 92 0516750 (Apr. 21, 1994)
  3. “could not possibly be drawn to meet every exceptional situation”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Muffler Shop, E. Hartford v. Dept. of Labor, No. 332678 (Jul. 20, 1990) · 1990 Conn. Super. Ct. 400 - Roto-Rooter Services v. State Dept. of Labor, No. 351874 (Jul. 20, 1990)

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.