Beard v. Summit Institute’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 831 So. 2d 906 - Wyatt v. Avoyelles Parish School Bd. (2002), 855 So. 2d 359 - Saacks v. Mohawk Carpet Corp. (2003)
46 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 Carriere v. Pee Wee's Equipment Co. · 683 So. 2d 348 - Barrilleaux v. Franklin Foundation Hosp. · Boudreaux v. Hamilton Medical Group · Caswell v. Reserve National Insurance · Bannon v. Techeland Oil Corporation
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No person, acting either for himself or as agent or otherwise, shall require any of his employees to sign contracts by which the employees shall forfeit their wages if discharged before the contract is completed or if the employees resign their employment before the contract is completed; but in all such cases the employees shall be entitled to the wages actually earned up to the time of their discharge or resignation.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any employer who fails or refuses to comply with the provisions of R.S. 23:631 shall be liable to the employee either for ninety days wages at the employee's daily rate of pay, or else for full wages from the time the employee's demand for payment is made until the employer shall pay or tender the amount of unpaid wages due to such employee, whichever is the lesser amount of penalty wages. Reasonable attorney fees shall be allowed the laborer or employee by the court which shall be taxed as costs to be paid by the employer, in the event a well-founded suit for any unpaid wages whatsoever be filed by the laborer or employee after three days shall have elapsed from time of making the first demand following discharge or resignation.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“a good-faith, non-arbitrary defense to liability for unpaid wages, i.e., a reasonable basis for resisting liability”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.