Medex v. McCabe’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 24 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 83 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably Smack v. Department of Health & Mental Hygiene (2003), Harris v. Board of Education (2003)
8 federal appellate · 24 district · 43 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 Taylor v. NationsBank, N.A. · Degren v. State · Tracey v. Tracey · Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. v. Fitzpatrick · Derry v. State
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 83 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each employer shall pay an employee ... all wages due for work that the employee performed before the termination of employment, on or before the day on which the employee would have been paid the wages if the employment had not been terminated.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“a dispute ... in which the employer resisting the employee's claim ... 'has a good faith basis for doing so,' where there is a 'legitimate dispute over the validity of the claim'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“at meeting 80% of a target goal, while another”
3 later decisions 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.