Temple v. Tec-Fab, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

32 state decisions

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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “In an action at law tried without a jury, an appellate court's scope of review extends merely to the correction of errors of law.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Comm'rs of Pub. Works of Laurens v. City of Fountain Inn · Linda A. Gibson, Formerly Known of the Paul William Gibson Family Trust, & Heritage Seven, LLC v. Ameris Bank

2. “[T]here are some wage disputes when the issue may involve a valid close question of law or fact which should properly be decided by the courts. We do not believe the legislature intended to deter the litigation of reasonable good faith wage disputes; we do believe the legislature intended to punish the employer who forces the employee to resort to the court in an unreasonable or bad faith wage dispute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Zinn v. CFI Sales & Marketing, Ltd.

3. “finding that an employee is entitled to recover unpaid wages is not equivalent to a finding that there existed no bona fide dispute as to the employee's entitlement to those wages.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Morin v. Innegrity, LLC