Dalheim v. KDFW-TV’s Empirical Analysis
918 F.2d 1220 · 1990
Citation profile
42 federal appellate · 10 district · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 157 later decisions — most recently March 2023 · most notably Reich v. John Alden Life Insurance (1997), Dybach v. State of Florida Department of Corrections (1991)
42 federal appellate · 10 district · 12 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. § 207
Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Arnold v. Ben Kanowsky, Inc. · United States v. Silk · Icicle Seafoods, Inc. v. Worthington · Jones v. Farm Credit Administration
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 157 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he distinction § 541.205(a) draws is between those employees whose primary duty is administering the business affairs of the enterprise from those whose primary duty is producing the commodity or commodities, whether goods or services, that the enterprise exists to produce and market.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“directly related to management policies or general business operations”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At least under the short tests, the employee's primary duty will usually be what she does that is of principal value to the employer, not the collateral tasks that she may also perform, even if they consume more than half her time.”
5 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.