Donovan v. Sovereign Security, Ltd.’s Empirical Analysis
726 F.2d 55 · 1984
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 4 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Brock v. Superior Care, Inc. (1988), Gierlinger v. Gleason (1998)
42 federal appellate · 4 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. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 217
Relies on California State Board of Equalization v. Western Marina Corp. · McComb v. Jacksonville Paper Co. · United States v. Rylander · Hern Iron Works, Inc. v. Donovan · George McClanahan and William Clinger v. William B. Mathews
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is ordinarily an abuse of discretion not to include pre-judgment interest in a back-pay award under the FLSA.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“obviously serves the compensatory purpose by making up for the delay in receiving the money, during which time the employees were denied its use, and by partially offsetting the reduction in the value of the delayed wages caused by inflation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“also serves to remedy the competitive disadvantage inflicted on law-abiding businesses by denying the errant employer the free use of the money it should have paid out in wages.”
3 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.