Falk v. Brennan’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
94 federal appellate · 69 district · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 419 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently January 2025 · most notably Herman v. RSR Security Services Ltd. (1999), Bonnette v. California Health & Welfare Agency (1983)
94 federal appellate · 69 district · 13 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedShultz v. Falk (from Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 211
Relies on Schwegmann Bros. v. Calvert Distillers Corp. · Union Carbide Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Mitchell v. Kentucky Finance Co. · Falk v. Brennan
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 419 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Employer” includes any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee____”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“substantial control of the terms and conditions of the work of [its] employees.”
3 later decisions 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.