Webster v. Bechtel, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Amos v. Oakdale Knitting Co. (1992), 165 Cal. App. 3d 239 - Skyline Homes, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (1985)
2 district · 27 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 29 U.S.C. § 202 · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 218 · 29 U.S.C. § 259 · 29 U.S.C. § 260 · 29 U.S.C. § 466 · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Rice v. Santa Fe Elevator Corp. · Florida Lime & Avocado Growers, Inc. v. Paul · Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · Ray v. Atlantic Richfield Co. · Leonor Alberti Decanas and Miguel Canas,s, v. Anthony G. Bica and Juan Silva.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as an obstacle to the accomplishment and execution of the full purposes and objectives”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In any action or proceeding based on any act or omission on or after May 14, 1947, no employer shall be subject to any liability or punishment for or on account of the failure of the employer to pay minimum wages or overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended ..., if he pleads and proves that the act or omission complained of was in good faith in conformity with and in reliance on any written administrative regulation, order, ruling, approval, or interpretation, of the agency of the United States specified in subsection (b) of this section, or any administrative practice or enforcement policy of such agency with respect to the class of employers to which he belonged. Such a defense, if established, shall be a bar to the action or proceeding, notwithstanding that after such act or omission, such administrative regulation ... is modified or rescinded ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The [AWHA] prescribes with comprehensive specificity the remedies available for its violation. An employee may recover his unpaid minimum wages or unpaid overtime compensation, and an identical sum as liquidated damages. Reasonable attorney’s fees are afforded. The Commissioner of Labor may obtain injunctive relief and criminal penalties may be imposed of not less than $100 nor more than $2,000, or imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or both. The comprehensiveness of this remedial system implies that the legislature did not intend to allow further unenumerated remedies.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.