Thomas v. State’s Empirical Analysis
534 F.2d 613 · 1976
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Kaspar Wire Works, Inc. v. Leco Engineering & Machine, Inc. (1978), Lynn's Food Stores, Inc. v. United States ex rel. U. S. Department of Labor, Employment Standards Administration, Wage & Hour Division (1982)
16 federal appellate · 1 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 Brooklyn Sav Bank v. O'Neil Dize · Parden v. Terminal Railway of Alabama State Docks Department · Employees of Department of Public Health Welfare Missouri v. Department of Public Health & Welfare Missouri · Fisher v. United States · Hostetter v. Idlewild Bon Voyage Liquor 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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Settlement agreements have always been a favored means of resolving disputes. When fairly arrived at and properly entered into, they are generally viewed as binding, final, and as conclusive of rights as a judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“cannot be construed to approve nonjudicial settlements of wage and hour claims in situations removed from the unique facts of this case.”
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.