Dole v. Snell’s Empirical Analysis
875 F.2d 802 · 1989
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably Morgan v. Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (2008), Lilley v. BTM Corp. (1992)
30 federal appellate · 15 district · 6 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956) · 29 U.S.C. § 203
Relies on Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · United States v. Silk · Logarusic v. United States · Rutherford Food Corp. v. McComb · Bartels v. Birmingham
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he Supreme Court has directed that the economic realities of the relationship govern.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'[t]he existence and degree of each factor is a question of fact.'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) the degree of control exerted by the alleged employer over the worker; (2) the worker’s opportunity for profit or loss; (3) the worker’s investment in the business; (4) the permanence of the working relationship; ... (5) the degree of skill required to perform the work ... [and (6) ] the extent to which the work is an integral part of the alleged employer’s business.”
4 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.