Benoit v. Landry, Lyons & Whyte Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2023
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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)
Relies on Manning v. Zuckerman · Riseman v. Orion Research Inc. · Weeks v. Harbor National Bank
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The effect of this definition is to require that the services covered by the [act] be those which are `offered generally by a person for sale to the public in a business transaction, not those services sold by an employee to an employer within the same organization.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the rationale of Manning [v. Zuckerman] require[d] the conclusion that a real estate salesman licensed under § 87RR is not engaged in the conduct of any trade or commerce” within the meaning of section 11 because they are not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“from receiving payment for his services from anyone except the single broker with whom he or she is affiliated”
1 later decision 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.