In Re Farb’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009
18 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 Lawton v. Steele · Adair v. United States · Coppage v. State · Miller v. Wilson · Adams v. Tanner
Most-quoted passages
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“‘ ‘ There is nothing essentially immoral in the contract itself whereby the employee agrees to work for a certain wage and to surrender all tips to his employer. The supreme court of Iowa (correctly, we think) approved an instruction to the effect that while the plaintiff, a bootblack, would be entitled to any gifts by way of tips, the employer might, if he could, prove an agreement on plaintiff’s part to turn the tips over to him. (Zappas v. Roumeliote, 156 Iowa 709 [ 137 N.W. 935 ].) If it is lawful, as between employer and employee, to provide for the ownership of tips into the possession of the latter, it can hardly be said that the patron’s ignorance of it makes the contract unlawful. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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