Brennan v. Heard’s Empirical Analysis
491 F.2d 1 · 1974
Citation profile
66 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 134 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2019 · most notably McLaughlin v. Richland Shoe Co. (1988), 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)
66 federal appellate · 12 district · 3 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. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 255
Relies on Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize · Richardson v. Hynson, Westcott & Dunning, Inc. · Arthur Coleman v. Jiffy June Farms, Inc., James D. Hodgson, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Jiffy June Farms, Inc. · Davis v. Edwards
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 134 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“neither a good faith belief in the lawfulness of his wage and overtime regulations nor complete ignorance of their invalidity shield the employer from the additional year of liability.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“[s]et-offs against back pay awards deprive the employee of the `cash in hand' contemplated by the Act, and are therefore inappropriate in any proceeding brought to enforce the FLSA minimum wage and overtime provisions[.]”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““Any action commenced on or after May 14, 1947, to enforce any cause of action for unpaid minimum wages, unpaid overtime compensation, or liquidated damages, under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, the Walsh-Healey Act, or the Bacon Davis Act— “(a) if the cause of action accrues on or after May 14, 1947 — may be commenced within two years after the cause of action accrued, and every such action shall be forever barred unless commenced within two years after the cause of action accrued, except that a cause of action arising out of a willful violation may be commenced within three years after the cause of action accrued”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.