Ryan v. Staff Care, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
Relationships
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on Desert Palace, Inc. v. Costa · Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. v. Sperling · Autek Systems Corp. v. United States · Mooney v. Aramco Services Co. · Grayson v. K Mart Corp.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court may deny a plaintiff's right to proceed collectively only if the action arises from circumstances purely personal to the plaintiff, and not from any generally applicable rule, policy, or practice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arceo v. Orta
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.