Brock v. Wilamowsky’s Empirical Analysis
833 F.2d 11 · 1987
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 7 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Herman v. RSR Security Services Ltd. (1999), Brock v. Superior Care, Inc. (1988)
14 federal appellate · 7 district ·
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. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 217 · 29 U.S.C. § 255 · 29 U.S.C. § 260 · 29 U.S.C. § 626 (§ 7 of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967)
Relies on Trans World Airlines, Inc. v. Thurston · Ratchford v. Gay Lib · Indiana Employment Security Division v. Burney · Mitchell v. Lublin, McGaughy & Associates · Carnegie v. United States
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the employer shows to the satisfaction of the court that the act or omission giving rise to such action was in good faith and that he had reasonable grounds for believing that his act or omission was not a violation of the [FLSA], the court may, in its sound discretion, award no liquidated damages or award any [lesser] amount thereof....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an honest intention to ascertain what the Act requires and to comply with it.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[d]ouble damages are the norm, single damages the exception.”
3 later decisions 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.