Donovan v. Scoles’s Empirical Analysis
652 F.2d 16 · 1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2019
6 federal appellate ·
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. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on Udall v. Tallman · National League of Cities v. Usery · Kirschbaum v. Walling US Arsenal Bldg Corporation · Maryland v. Wirtz · Ristaino v. Ross
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“imposes no requirement that the goods have a present involvement in interstate commerce when they are handled or sold. Instead it broadens coverage to include all employees within the stream of commerce of such goods, even if their own participation remains purely intrastate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“including employees handling, selling, or otherwise working on goods or materials that have been moved in or produced for commerce by any person”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n 1961 the FLSA was amended to provide a second basis for coverage.”
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.