Bonham v. Copper Cellar Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2012
10 federal appellate · 3 district · 1 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
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. § 215 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 260
Relies on George McClanahan and William Clinger v. William B. Mathews · Brennan v. Maxey's Yamaha, Inc. · John T. Dunlop, Secretary of Labor v. Carriage Carpet Company · 388 F. Supp. 877 - Rau v. Darling's Drug Store, Inc. · 396 F. Supp. 704 - Brennan v. Braswell Motor Freight Lines, 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) ... it shall be unlawful for any person— (3) to discharge or in any other manner discriminate against any employee because such employee has filed any complaint or instituted or caused to be instituted any proceeding under or related to this chapter ... (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“all tips received by such employee have been retained by the employee, except that this subsection shall not be construed to prohibit the pooling of tips among employees who customarily and regularly receive tips.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“immediate cause or motivating factor of a discharge is the employee's assertion of statutory rights, the discharge is discriminatory under Sec. 215(a)(3) whether or not other grounds for discharge exist.”
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.