9 Fair Emplpraccas 524 19 Wage & Hour Cas’s Empirical Analysis

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9 district · 4 state decisions

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

1. ““ * * * Congress in prescribing ‘equal’ work did not require that the jobs be identical, but only that they be substantially equal. Any other interpretation would destroy the remedial purposes of the Act. “The Act was intended as a broad charter of women’s, rights in the economic field. It sought to overcome the age-old belief in women’s inferiority and to eliminate the depressing effects on living standards of reduced wages for female workers and the economic and social consequences which flow from it.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hodgson v. City Stores, Inc. · Peltier v. City of Fargo

2. “(a) No employer . . . shall discriminate . . . between employes on the basis of sew by paying wages to employes . . . at a rate less than the rate at which he pays wages to employes of the opposite sew . . . for equal work on jobs, the performance of which, requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions, except where such payment is made pursuant to (1) a seniority system; (2) a merit system; (3) a system which measures earnings by quantity or quality of production; or (4) a differential based on any other factor other than sex. . . . (Emphasis added.)”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. School District of Millcreek v. Commonwealth · 462 F. Supp. 535 - Usery v. BOARD OF ED. OF BALTIMORE CTY.

3. “(a) The Congress hereby finds that the existence in industries engaged in commerce or in the production of goods for commerce of wage differentials based on sex— (1) depresses wages and living standards for employees necessary for their health and efficiency; (2) prevents the maximum utilization of the available labor resources; (3) tends to cause labor disputes, thereby burdening, affecting, and obstructing commerce; (4) burdens commerce and the free flow of goods in commerce; and (5) constitutes an unfair method of competition. (b) It is hereby declared to be the policy of this Act, through exercise by Congress of its power to regulate commerce among the several States and with foreign nations, to correct the conditions above referred to in such industries.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hodgson v. City Stores, Inc.