Reed v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
232 F.2d 668 · 1956
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2002 · most notably James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Hodges Contracting Company and Kenneth B. Hodges (1956), Martinez v. Food City, Inc. (1981)
16 federal appellate · 2 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. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 251 (Employee Commuting Flexibility Act of 1996) · 29 U.S.C. § 258 · 29 U.S.C. § 259 · 29 U.S.C. § 260
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Pennsylvania Co v. Chamberlain · Chesapeake Ry Co v. Martin · Quock Ting v. United States · Ex Parte Barber
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any action commenced prior to or on or after May 14, 1947 to recover unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime compensation, or liquidated damages, under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, if 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 of 1938, as amended, the court may, in its sound discretion, award no liquidated damages or award any amount thereof not to exceed the amount specified in section 216(b) of this title.” 1”
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.