McMaster’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
8 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Mark Tourscher v. Martin Horn Secretary of the Pa Dept of Corrections (1999), 875 F. Supp. 1353 - Smith v. Babbitt (1995)
8 district · 8 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 Cort v. Ash · National League of Cities v. Usery · Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority · Wilder v. Virginia Hospital Assn. · Wright v. City of Roanoke Redevelopment & Housing Authority
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“inmates such as the present plaintiffs, who are required to work as part of their sentences and perform labor within a correctional facility as part of a state-run prison industries program are not “employees” of the state or prison within the meaning of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The economic reality of the relationship between inmates and the DOC dictates that the inmates not be considered employees. The inmates have not volunteered or contracted to work for the State; they are assigned and required to do so.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ashurst-Sumners does not provide a private cause of action, either expressly or by implication. Furthermore, Ashurst-Sumners creates no federal right enforceable by way of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 .”
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.