Gagnon v. United Technisource, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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10 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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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.

1. “[0]ur precedent suggests that such claims should not be addressed in a[n] FLSA action. See Brennan v. Heard, 491 F.2d 1, 4 (5th Cir.1974), rev’d on other grounds, McLaughlin v. Richland Shóe Co., 486 U.S. 128 , 108 S.Ct. 1677 , 100 L.Ed.2d 115 (1988) (noting that the only function of the federal judiciary under the FLSA “is to assure to the employees of a covered company a minimum level of wages” and holding that “arguments and disputations over claims against those wages are foreign to the genesis, history, interpretation, and philosophy of the Act.”).”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Health Care Medical, Inc. v. Good · 990 F. Supp. 2d 723 - Mohammadi v. Nwabuisi

2. “difficult to believe that a skilled craftsman would accept a wage so close to the minimum wage when the prevailing wage for similarly skilled craftsmen was approximately three times the minimum wage.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baouch v. Werner Enters., Inc. · Yassine Baouch v. Werner Enterprises, Inc.

3. “troubled by the fact that the combined 'straight time' and 'per diem' hourly rates approximately match[ed] the prevailing wage for aircraft painters.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Baouch v. Werner Enters., Inc. · Yassine Baouch v. Werner Enterprises, Inc.