Atlantic Co. v. Broughton’s Empirical Analysis
146 F.2d 480 · 1944
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2022 · most notably Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize (1945), D. A. Schulte, Inc. v. Gangi (1946)
8 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel · Tennessee Coal Iron Co v. Muscoda Local No 123 Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co · Williams v. First National Bank · Hennessy v. Bacon · Harris v. Runnels
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... if an employer on any regular payment date fails to pay the full amount of the minimum wages and overtime compensation due an employee, there immediately arises an obligation upon the employer to pay the employee the difference between the wages paid and the wages due, plus an equal additional amount as liquidated damages ... (emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Though settlements in accord and satisfaction are favored in law, they may not be sanctioned and enforced when they contravene and tend to nullify the letter and spirit of an Act of Congress.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In re Smith · Smith
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.