Miller v. Dukakis’s Empirical Analysis
961 F.2d 7 · 1992
Citation profile
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Mark Tourscher v. Martin Horn Secretary of the Pa Dept of Corrections (1999), Henthorn v. Department of Navy (1994)
20 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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. § 202 · 29 U.S.C. § 206 (Equal Pay Act of 1963)
Relies on 344 F. Supp. 373 - Wyatt v. Stickney · Langton v. Johnston · 344 F. Supp. 387 - Wyatt v. Stickney · Gilbreath v. Cutter Biological, Inc. · McGinnis v. Stevens
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The courts have uniformly denied FLSA coverage ... to convicts who work for the prisons in which they are inmates.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Prisoners are not employees, within the meaning of the Fair Labor Standards Act.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the minimum wage is not needed to protect the appellants' well-being and standard of living.... SDPs [sexually dangerous persons], like the more common run of prisoners, are cared for (and their standard of living is determined, within constitutional limits) by the state .... [And] the payment of sub-minimum wages to SDPs presents no threat of unfair competition to other employers, who must pay the minimum wage to then-employees, because the Treatment Center does not operate in the marketplace and has no business competitors.”
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.