Solis v. Washington’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 1 state decisions

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.

1. “Advanced knowledge from a general academic education and from [experience]” rather than from”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 109 F. Supp. 3d 1273 - Boyd v. Bank of America Corp. · 910 F. Supp. 2d 523 - Kadden v. Visualex, LLC

2. “(a) To qualify for the learned professional exemption, an employee’s primary duty must be the performance of work requiring advanced knowledge in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction. This primary duty test includes three elements: (1) The employee must perform work requiring advanced knowledge; (2) The advanced knowledge must be in a field of science or learning; and (3) The advanced knowledge must be customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 49 F. Supp. 3d 502 - Solis v. Suroc, Inc.

3. “the learned professional exemption is not available for occupations that customarily may be performed with only the general knowledge acquired by an academic degree in any field, with knowledge acquired through an apprenticeship, or with training in the performance of'routine mental ... processes. The learned professional exemption also does not apply to occupations in which most employees have acquired their skill by experience rather than by advanced specialized intellectual instruction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 109 F. Supp. 3d 1273 - Boyd v. Bank of America Corp.