Brooks v. Weinberger’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 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 28 U.S.C. § 1346 (Federal Tort Claims Act) · 28 U.S.C. § 1391 · 28 U.S.C. § 1402 · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 633A (§ 15 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Brunette MacHine Works, Ltd. v. Kockum Industries, Inc. · Davila v. Weinberger
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First ... the FLSA does not vest jurisdiction in a particular court. í}5 !¡í í¡< Hi Hi S& Second, the legislative history of the FLSA amendments of 1966, which added the “any court of competent jurisdiction” language quoted above, 4 indicates that the purpose for adding that language was not to supplant the Tucker Act, but rather to allow state and local employees to bring FLSA claims in federal court. Third, the language of the Tucker Act is all-inclusive---- Absent a specific Congressional grant of jurisdiction in a particular court ... the Tucker Act applies to any claim brought against the United States.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“An action to recover the liability prescribed in either of the preceding sentences may be maintained against any employer (including a public agency) in any Federal or State court of competent jurisdiction by any one or more employees for and in behalf of himself or themselves and other employees similarly situated. No employee shall be a party plaintiff to any such action unless he gives his consent in writing to become such a party and such consent is ñled in the court in which such action is brought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“jurisdiction for claims to recover compensation for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act rests in the federal courts by virtue of the Tucker Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Parker v. King
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.