Modica v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
465 F.3d 174 · 2006
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2025 · most notably Regents of the University of California v. Credit Suisse First Boston (USA), Inc. (2007), Oscar Private Equity Investments v. Allegiance Telecom, Inc. (2007)
12 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 2611 (§ 101 of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 704 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Connick v. Myers · Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs · Kinney v. Weaver · McClendon v. City of Columbia · Terrell v. University of Texas System Police
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 56 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 and includes a public agency, but does not include any labor organization (other than when acting as an employer) or anyone acting in the capacity of officer or agent of such labor organization.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(i) means any person engaged in commerce or in any industry or activity affecting commerce who employs 50 or more employees for each working day during each of 20 or more calendar workweeks in the current or preceding calendar year; (ii)includes— (I) any person who acts, directly or indirectly, in the interest of an employer to any of the employees of such employer; and (II) any successor in interest of an employer; (iii) includes any "public agency”, as defined'in section 203(x) of this title; and (iv) includes the Government Accountability Office and the Library of Congress.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he FMLA’s definition of 'employer' is ... materially identical [with] the definition of 'employer' used in the [FLSA].”
2 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.