Griffin v. Wake County’s Empirical Analysis
142 F.3d 712 · 1998
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2017
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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. § 207
Relies on Monahan v. County of Chesterfield · Highlander v. K.F.C. National Management Co. · Flood v. New Hanover County · Condo v. Sysco Corp. · Bailey v. County of Georgetown
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The language of section 778.114 suggests that ,an employer must meet the following requirements before it can pay an employee pursuant to the fluctuating workweek method: 1) the employee’s hours must fluctuate from week to. week; 2) the employee must receive a fixed weekly salary that remains the same regardless of the number, of hours that the employee works during the week; 3) the fixed amount' must be sufficient to provide compensation at a regular rate not less than the legal minimum wage; 4) the employer and the employee must have a clear, mutual understanding that the employer will pay the employee the fixed weekly salary regardless of the hours worked; -and 5) the employee must receive a fifty percent overtime premium in addition to the fixed weekly salary for all hours that the employee works in exuess of forty during that week.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here 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.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“employer hold an employee's hand and specifically tell him or her precisely how the payroll system works”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. III v. D R
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.