Bennett v. Frank’s Empirical Analysis
395 F.3d 409 · 2005
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2023
3 federal appellate · 5 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 Carter v. Dutchess Community College · Hale v. State of Arizona · Vanskike v. Peters · Watson v. Graves · Villarreal v. Woodham
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“People are not imprisoned for the purpose of enabling them to earn a living. The prison pays for their keep. If it puts them to work, it is to offset some of the cost of keeping them, or to keep them out of mischief, or to ease their transition to the world outside, or to equip them with skills and habits that will make them less likely to return to crime outside. None of these goals is compatible with federal regulation of their wages and hours. The reason the FLSA contains no express exception for prisoners is probably that the idea was too outlandish to occur to anyone when the legislation was under consideration by Congress.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee and includes a public agency.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there are some excepted classes of employees, § 203(e)(2), (3), (4), but prisoners are not among them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.