Tombrello v. USX Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Mares v. ConAgra Poultry Co. (1992), Anderson v. Sara Lee Corp. (2007)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 2 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 20 U.S.C. § 1232G (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) · 29 U.S.C. § 185 (§ 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)) · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 216
Relies on United Paperworkers International Union v. Misco, Inc. · Hines v. Anchor Motor Freight, Inc. · Republic Steel Corp. v. Maddox · Local 174 Teamsters Chaukfeurs Warehousemen Helpers of America v. Lucas Flour Company · Delaware v. New York
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny employer who violates the provisions of [the FLSA] ... shall be liable to the employee or employees affected in the amount of their unpaid minimum wages, or their unpaid overtime compensation, as the case may be, and in an additional equal amount as liquidated damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Courts have consistently held that the above statute is the exclusive remedy for enforcing rights created under the FLSA.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“would be highly offensive to a reasonable person.”
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.