Uphoff v. Elegant Bath, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
176 F.3d 399 · 1999
Citation profile
23 federal appellate · 1 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals v. Doughney (2001), Health Cost Controls of Illinois, Inc. v. Valerie Washington (1999)
23 federal appellate · 1 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 Hensley v. Eckerhart · Blum v. Stenson · Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney · McNabola v. Chicago Transit Authority · Federal Deposit Insurance v. Meyer
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.
“[I]f the employer shows to the satisfaction of the court that the act or omission giving rise to such action was in good faith and that he had reasonable grounds for believing that his act or omission was not a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act ... the court may, in its sound discretion, award no liquidated damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Reynoso v. Motel LLC“'Although in the final analysis, we review a district court's decision on liquidated damages for abuse of discretion, that discretion must be exercised consistently with the strong presumption under the statute in favor of doubling.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the rate that lawyers of similar ability and experience in the community normally charge their paying clients for the type of work in question.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.