Donovan v. Wp Pointon’s Empirical Analysis
717 F.2d 1320 · 1983
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Peters v. City of Shreveport (1987), Ferguson v. Neighborhood Housing Services of Cleveland, Inc. (1986)
10 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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 · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 255
Relies on National Organization for Women, Inc. v. Idaho · Brennan v. Heard · Marshall v. Brunner · Mistretta v. Sandia Corp. · National Labor Relations Board v. Mooney Aircraft, Inc.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of the present action is to bring [the employer] into compliance with the Act by enforcing a public right. To permit him in such a proceeding to try his private claims, real or imagined, against his employees would delay and even subvert the whole process.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“removing and thinning trees, clearing brush, grading and contouring the land for streets and drainage, installing culverts, pouring concrete for curbs and laying asphalt.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“goods or materials which have moved in interstate commerce constitutes a”
2 later decisions 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.