Wright v. Carrigg’s Empirical Analysis
275 F.2d 448 · 1960
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party (1977), National Automatic Laundry and Cleaning Council v. George P. Shultz, Secretary, U. S. Department of Labor (1971)
22 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 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 Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize · Rothman v. Publicker Industries, Inc. · Maddrix v. Dize · Magann v. Long's Baggage Transfer 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 57 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 [an action under the Act] 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 * * *.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“plain and substantial burden of persuading the court by proof that his failure to obey the statute was both in good faith and predicated upon such reasonable grounds that it would be unfair to impose upon him more than a compensatory verdict.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““With respect to the counsel fee, the [district] court had no discretion to deny it; the law’s requirement of an award is mandatory and unconditional. Section 16(b) provides: ‘The court in such action shall, in addition to any judgment 'awarded to the plaintiff or plaintiffs, allow a reasonable attorney’s fee to be paid by the' defendant, and costs of the action.'’ * * * ””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.