Donovan v. Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
647 F.2d 14 · 1981
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2016
11 federal appellate · 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
Relies on Mitchell v. Lublin, McGaughy & Associates · Hope v. Commissioner · Wirtz v. Malthor, Inc. · Shultz v. Mack Farland & Sons Roofing Co. · Hodgson v. Colonnades, Inc.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Coverage for enterprises “engaged in the business of construction or reconstruction” is not limited to construction contractors. Other courts, interpreting § 3(s)(4), have not required that a cover ed enterprise be engaged exclusively or even primarily in the construction business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“any construction work, regardless of the size or duration of the project, is likely to have an effect on interstate commerce”
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.