McLaughlin v. Owens Plastering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
841 F.2d 299 · 1988
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2018
5 federal appellate · 1 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. § 207 · 29 U.S.C. § 216 · 29 U.S.C. § 217 · 33 U.S.C. § 1319
Relies on Dairy Queen, Inc. v. Wood · Curtis v. Loether · Tull v. United States · Wirtz v. Jones · Thermo-Stitch, Inc. v. Chemi-Cord Processing Corp.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the Secretary [is] free to seek equitable relief under section 17, legal relief under section 16, or both, as she chooses to do here. ... The Secretary may not bring an action at law and then deny the defendant a jury trial by attempting to characterize the action differently.”
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.