Lopez v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
668 F.2d 1376 · 1981
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 6 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2018
10 federal appellate · 6 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. § 1961 · 29 U.S.C. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 29 U.S.C. § 260
Relies on Ratchford v. Gay Lib · Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party. Mary P. Laffey v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., Air Line Pilots Association, Non-Aligned Party · Gregg v. Rahm · Haas v. Palace Hotel Co. · Spagnuolo v. Whirlpool Corp.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reconsidering this case, the District Court may deny a credit to appellants for board and lodging for part of the employment period only if it finds that appellee would have left the job but for the coercive conditions imposed upon her by appellants. Any finding that appellee was unable to leave the job, however, must be attributable to restrictive actions taken by her employers. To hold otherwise would be to ignore the fact that "living-in" was an integral part of appellee's job.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“). The court then went on to state: The tests enunciated in Intraworld and New Floridian Hotel may have been appropriate under the factual circumstances considered by the courts in those cases. We think a somewhat different approach is necessary, however, in a case such as this one, involving a live-in domestic service employee. Where, as here,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The claimant had no other place to live and no choice but to accept the food and facilities provided to him.”
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.