Baughn v. Gorrell Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2014 · most notably 69 Cal. 2d 371 - Kugler v. Yocum (1968), Group Health Ins. of NJ v. Howell (1963)
30 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 Carter v. Carter Coal Co. · Craig v. O'Rear · Metropolitan Water District of Southern California v. Whitsett · Long Island Railroad v. Department of Labor · Lowery v. City of Lexington
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the eyes of the Legislature, wages paid under agreements between labor organizations and employers constitute a fair criteria of reasonable compensation for different types of work. It will be noted these wages are agreed upon as the result of bargaining between labor on one side and the employer on the other. As pointed out in Long Island Railway Company v. Department of Labor, 256 N.Y. 498 , 177 N.E. 17 , prevailing wages ordinarily are governed by the law of supply and demand, and the competitive market will tend to establish a fair wage.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The public authority shall establish prevailing wages at the same rate that prevails in the locality under collective agreements or understandings between bona fide organizations of labor and their employers at the date the contract for public works is made if there are such agreements or understandings in the locality applying to a sufficient number of employes [sic] to furnish a reasonable basis for considering those rates to be the prevailing rates in the locality. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The wisdom of this type of legislation may be debatable, but that is not a judicial question.”
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.