Divine v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1992
5 district · 6 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 28 U.S.C. § 41 · 29 U.S.C. § 202 · 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 218
Relies on Mulford v. Smith · Wagner Supply Co. v. Bateman · Hill v. Roberts · Opp Cotton Mills, Inc., v. Administrator of Wage & Hour Division of Department of Labor · 9 La. App. 47 - Whitehead v. E. J. Deas 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Any employee who violates the provisions of section 206 or section 207 of this title shall be. liable to the employee or employees affected in the amount of their unpaid minimum wages, or their unpaid overtime compensation, as the case may be, and in an additional equal amount as liquidated damages. Action to recover such liability may be maintained in any court of competent jurisdiction by any one or more employees for and in behalf of himself or themselves and other employees similarly situated, or such employee or employees may designate an agent or representative to maintain such action for and in behalf of all employees similarly situated. 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. June 25, 1938, c. 676, § 16, 52 Stat. 1069 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“amount due under the terms of employment”
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.