Brennan v. J. M. Fields, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
488 F.2d 443 · 1973
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party (1977), Marshall v. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (1977)
22 federal appellate · 1 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
Relies on Baumgartner v. United States · Arthur Coleman v. Jiffy June Farms, Inc., James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Jiffy June Farms, Inc. · Hodgson v. Brookhaven General Hospital · 4 Fair empl.prac.cas. 269, 4 Empl. Prac. Dec. P 7629 James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Broward County, Florida · Shultz v. Wheaton Glass Co.
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Stated most simply, we think the test should be: Did the employer know the FLSA was in the picture? The entire legislative history of the 1966 amendments of the FLSA indicates a liberalizing intention on the part of Congress. Requiring employers to have more than awareness of the possible applicability of the FLSA would be inconsistent with that intent.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(t)o allow exceptions (to willfulness) . . . in situations where an employer, once charged with violating the Act, corrects the unlawful practice, would sap much of the E.P.A.'s vitality”
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.