Dunlop v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.2d 1278 · 1975
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 3 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Donovan v. Brown Equipment and Service Tools Inc (1982), United States v. Campbell (1990)
11 federal appellate · 3 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
Relies on Isbell Enterprises, Inc. v. Citizens Casualty Co. of New York · Gulf King Shrimp Company v. W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor · Mitchell v. Pidcock · James P. Mitchell, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Hodges Contracting Company and Kenneth B. Hodges · Goldberg v. Cockrell
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he issuance of a permanent injunction in FLSA cases does not subject an employer against whom it runs to a penalty or a hardship since it requires him to do ‘what the Act requires anyway — to comply with the law.’ Mitchell v. Pidcock, 5 Cir. 1962, 299 F.2d 281 , 287.” Dunlop v. Davis, 524 F.2d 1278, 1281 (C.A. 5, 1975).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the two factors properly to be considered in determining whether a permanent (prospective) injunction should be granted are the previous conduct of the employer and the dependability of his promises for future compliance.”
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.