McLaughlin US v. Seafood Inc’s Empirical Analysis
867 F.2d 875 · 1989
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Dole v. Elliott Travel & Tours, Inc. (1991), Dole v. Snell (1989)
12 federal appellate · 2 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 United States v. Silk · Logarusic v. United States · Jones v. Farm Credit Administration · Castillo v. Givens · Beliz v. Wh McLeod & Sons Packing Company
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he workers were not specialists called in to solve a problem, but unskilled laborers who performed the essential, everyday chores of Seafood's operation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[elven if the freedom to work for multiple employers may provide something of a safety net, unless a worker possesses specialized and widely-demanded skills, that freedom is hardly the same as true economic independence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he remedial purposes of the FLSA require the courts to define 'employer' more broadly than the term would be interpreted in traditional common law applications.”
2 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.