Darby v. Bratch’s Empirical Analysis
287 F.3d 673 · 2002
Citation profile
40 federal appellate · 17 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 108 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Shotz v. City of Plantation (2003), Smith v. Allen Health Systems Inc. (2002)
40 federal appellate · 17 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 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) · 29 U.S.C. § 2612 (§ 102 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 29 U.S.C. § 2615 (§ 105 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 42 U.S.C. § 12112 (§ 102 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 Auer v. Robbins · Hafer v. Melo · Richmond v. Oneok, Inc. · Fjellestad v. Pizza Hut of America, 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 108 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) means any person engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce who employs 50 or more employees for each working day during each of 20 or more calendar workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year; (ii)includes— (I) any person who acts, directly or indirectly, in the interest of an employer to any of the employees of such employer; and (II) any successor in interest of an employer; (iii) includes any "public agency”, as defined'in section 203(x) of this title; and (iv) includes the Government Accountability Office and the Library of Congress.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no reason to distinguish employers in the public sector from those in the private sector.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) for at least 12 months by-the employer with respect to whom leave is requested under section 2612 of this title; and ” (ii) for at least 1,250 hours of service with such employer during the previous 12-month period.”
2 later decisions 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.