Foster v. Irwin’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 district · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2005
3 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · Haas v. Palace Hotel Co. · Wright v. Carrigg · Stilwell v. Hertz Drivurself Stations, Inc. · Clougherty v. James Vernor Co.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The section respecting award of attorney fees to the employees’ attorney has been held to be mandatory and unconditional. Wright v. Carrigg, 4 Cir., 275 F.2d 448 . The amount of the fee to be awarded is left to the sound discretion of the Court. Stilwell v. Hertz Drivurself Stations, 3 Cir., 174 F.2d 714 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(i)f it appears that the plaintiffs have performed some work for which they have not been properly paid, the Court cannot deny recovery merely because the amount is not capable of mathematical ascertainment. Wirtz v. Turner, 7 Cir., 330 F.2d 11 .” Foster v. Irwin, 258 F.Supp. 709 (E.D.La.1966).”
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.