Wentworth v. Solem’s Empirical Analysis
548 F.2d 773 · 1977
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 3 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently July 2006 · most notably Carter v. Dutchess Community College (1984), Hale v. State of Arizona (1993)
19 federal appellate · 3 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 18 U.S.C. § 1761 · 18 U.S.C. § 1762 · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on Cort v. Ash · National League of Cities v. Usery · Kentucky Whip & Collar Co. v. Illinois Central Railroad · Maurice Sigler v. Vincent R. Lowrie
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“do[es] not expressly create a private right of action,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proceeded upon the view 'that free labor, properly compensated, cannot compete successfully with the enforced and unpaid or underpaid convict labor of the prison' "). 29 We conclude that Congress' purpose in enacting the Ashurst-Sumners Act was to protect private business, not to protect the inmate worker. As this court previously stated: "Sections 1761-62 embody Congressional interest in free labor and were designed to protect private business from competition from goods produced with inexpensive convict labor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e are doubtful that Congress ... intended to extend the coverage of the minimum wage law to convicts working in state prison industries.”
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.