Brewster v. Barnes’s Empirical Analysis
788 F.2d 985 · 1986
Citation profile
31 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently August 2021 · most notably Meeks v. Computer Associates International (1994), Miranda v. B & B Cash Grocery Store, Inc. (1992)
31 federal appellate · 16 district · 3 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. § 203 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963) · 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1985 · 42 U.S.C. § 1988 · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Hensley v. Eckerhart · International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States · Daniels v. Williams · Griggs v. Duke Power Co.
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The crucial finding on the equal work issue is whether the jobs to be compared have a "common core”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[A]ny close working relationship which existed between Brewster and Shockley prior to 1975 had essentially ended once Shockley moved his office out of the jail, while Brewster remained behind as a full-time correctional officer. From 1975 to 1979 Brewster ... did not occupy an intimate or high level position in the Sheriff’s Department, nor did she make policy decisions. Rather, she performed the same functions as the other correctional officers at the jail: handling, transporting, and supervising prisoners; searching visitors; and various jobs such as recordkeeping, cooking, and cleaning. In short, under the rationale of Curl, Brewster was not a member of Shockley’s personal staff.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'discharge any of the official duties of their principal;'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Russell Nichols Robert Campbell Jim Walters Hayden Byrd Carl Miller Loyd McBee Blake Dudoit v. Charles Hurley, as Sheriff of Leflore County, Oklahoma the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Leflore, State of Oklahoma, and the Excise Board of Leflore County, Oklahoma, and the Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae. Al Cossey Alvin McGee Jim Lawson v. Bobby Gray, Sheriff of McIntosh County, State of Oklahoma Board of County Commissioners of McIntosh County, State of Oklahoma, the Secretary of Labor, Amicus Curiae · Nichols
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.