27 F. Supp. 2d 288 - Meara v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Mitchell v. Chapman (2003), Beaupre v. Cliff Smith & Associates (2000)
4 federal appellate · 19 district · 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. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 2601 (§ 2 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2611 (§ 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 42 U.S.C. § 12101 (§ 2 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12111 (§ 101 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Conley v. Gibson · Middlesex County Sewerage Authority v. National Sea Clammers Assn. · Smith v. Robinson · Tomka v. Seiler Corp. · Miller v. Maxwell's International Inc.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Employer” includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee and includes a public agency, but does not include any labor organization (other than when acting as an employer) or anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“generally speaking, a claim under § 1983 may not be asserted based upon the violation of a statute that itself already provides 'a comprehensive enforcement mechanism for protection of a federal right.'”
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.