McLaughlin v. Ho Fat Seto’s Empirical Analysis
850 F.2d 586 · 1988
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 6 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 2021 · most notably Morgan v. Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (2008), D'Emanuele v. Montgomery Ward & Co. (1990)
14 federal appellate · 6 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
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · Robertson v. California · Donovan v. Bel-Loc Diner, Inc.
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden then shifts to the employer to come forward with evidence of the precise amount of work performed or with evidence to negative the reasonableness of the inference to be drawn from the employee's evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“an employee carries his burden under the FLSA if he shows he performed work for which he was improperly compensated and produces some evidence to show the amount and extent of that work as a matter of just and reasonable inference.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“We accord great deference to the trial court's opportunity to assess the credibility of witnesses.”
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.