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810 F.2d 1094 · 1987

Citation profile

114
cited by 114 later decisions
1
states following
April 2022
most recently cited

73 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Fontaine v. Ebtec Corp. (1993), Starceski 94-3208 v. Westinghouse Electric Corporation 94-3182 (1995)

73 federal appellate · 9 district · 1 state decisions

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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. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)

Relies on McDonnell Douglas Corp. v. Green · Bonner v. City of Prichard · Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · Lorillard v. Pons

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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Congress intended for [ADEA] liquidated damages to be punitive in nature,”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “ADEA liquidated damages awards punish and deter violators, while FLSA liquidated damages merely compensate for damages that would be difficult to calculate.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “[t]here is no logical way to square a finding of intentional discrimination with a finding of good faith on the employer's part.”
    2 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.