413 So. 2d 276 - Powell v. Flotation Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2011
11 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 Carriere v. Pee Wee's Equipment Co. · 328 So. 2d 788 - Duhon v. PROF ERNY'S MUSIC CO. INC. · Hendrix v. Delta Air Lines, Inc. · 269 So. 2d 266 - Lognion v. Continental Casualty Co. · 382 So. 2d 984 - Doucet v. Plantation Manor, Inc.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order for an employer to be liable for penalty wages, the employer must have been motivated by bad faith or must be found to have acted in an arbitrary or unreasonable manner. It is only a ‘good faith non-arbitrary defense to liability for unpaid wages; i.e., a reasonable basis for resisting liability’ which will permit the courts to excuse the employer from the imposition of penalty wages.” (Citations omitted.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any employer who fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of R.S. 23:631 shall be liable to the employee either for ninety days wages at the employee’s daily rate of pay, or else for full wages from the time the employee’s demand for payment is made until the employer shall pay or tender the amount of unpaid wages due to such employee, whichever is the lesser amount of penalty wages. Reasonable attorney’s fees shall be allowed the laborer or employee by the court which shall be taxed as costs to be paid by the employer, in the event a well-founded suit for any unpaid wages whatsoever be filed by the laborer or employee after three days shall have elapsed from time of making the first demand following discharge or resignation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"The employer's rules, policies or procedures for issuing checks for wages shall not have the effect of extending the three day period set forth for employees who have been discharged or resigned."”
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.