Donovan v. Hamm's Drive Inn’s Empirical Analysis
661 F.2d 316 · 1981
Citation profile
22 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2023 · most notably Waldorf v. Shuta (1998), Coastal States Marketing, Inc. v. Hunt (1983)
22 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 Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · Linkletter v. Walker · Loftin & Woodard, Inc. v. United States · Wirtz v. Jones · Tomlinson v. Lefkowitz
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee,”
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.