Alexander v. Sara, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
721 F.2d 149 · 1983
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Carter v. Dutchess Community College (1984), Hale v. State of Arizona (1993)
24 federal appellate · 4 district · 5 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 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · Castillo v. Givens · 334 F. Supp. 774 - Sims v. Parke Davis & Co. · United States v. Isaza
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“extension [of the FLSA] to the prison inmate was not legislatively contemplated”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“there was no employer-employee relationship, because the inmates' labor belonged to the penitentiary”
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.