Commonwealth v. Savage

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a real estate broker’s commission was not a wage because the commission was episodic and substantial
• holding that weekly wage law did not apply to real estate broker whose commissions were episodic, and where broker functioned, and filed taxes, as independent contractor
• “The title of an act is part of it and is relevant as a guide to legislative intent”
• the legislative purpose of the act is to assist employees for whom commissions constitute a significant part of weekly income
• certain real estate commissions were not covered by act, where commissions were episodic and broker functioned as independent contractor
• a real estate agent’s commissions did not constitute wages under the Act because “the transactions [were] not regular, but episodic,” and, the agent received no base salary, made her own hours and paid for her own. office supplies

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

38 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Eaton v. Federal National Mortgage Ass'n
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2012-06-22· cited 194×
• MacDougall v. Weichert
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1996-06-10· cited 109×
• Wiedmann v. Bradford Group, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2005-07-21· cited 95×
• Prozinski v. Northeast Real Estate Services, LLC
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-10-16· cited 75×
• Okerman v. VA Software Corp.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2007-08-20· cited 48×
• Chambers v. RDI Logistics, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2016-12-16· cited 33×
• Weems v. Citigroup Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 2009-01-30· cited 33×
• McAleer v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America
  D. Massachusetts· 2013-02-28· cited 24×
• Suominen v. Goodman Industrial Equities Management Group, LLC
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2011-02-11· cited 23×
• Doucot v. IDS Scheer, Inc.
  D. Massachusetts· 2010-08-10· cited 14×
• National Ass'n of Government Employees v. Labor Relations Commission
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 2003-10-02· cited 9×
• Locations, Inc. v. Hawai'i Department of Labor & Industrial Relations
  Hawaii Supreme Court· 1995-07-28· cited 8×
• Dennis v. Jager, Smith & Stetier, P.C.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2000-04-10· cited 7×
• Tomsic v. Lautieri (In Re Tri-Star Technologies Co.)
  D. Massachusetts· 2001-01-24· cited 6×
• Huebsch v. Katahdin Industries, Inc.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2001-04-24· cited 6×
• Lohnes v. Darwin Partners, Inc.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2002-07-22· cited 6×
• Dobin v. CIOview Corp.
  Massachusetts Superior Court· 2003-10-29· cited 6×
• Molloy v. Massachusetts Mortgage Corp.
  Mass. Dist. Ct., App. Div.· 1998-01-12· cited 6×
• Re/Max of New Jersey, Inc. v. Wausau Insurance Companies
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2000-01-27· cited 5×
• Botello v. Massachusetts Port Authority
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1999-09-23· cited 4×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Khoury v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1928-11-28· cited 103×
• American Family Life Assurance Co. v. Commissioner of Insurance
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1983-03-15· cited 73×
• Commonwealth v. Jarrett
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1971-05-12· cited 55×
• Dimmitt-Rickhoff-Bayer Real Estate Co. v. Finnegan, Collector of Internal Revenue
  Eighth Circuit· 1950-02-08· cited 27×
• Silvia v. Woodhouse
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1969-06-03· cited 16×
• Hemman v. Harvard Community Health Plan, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1984-04-27· cited 14×
• Commonwealth v. Northern Telecom, Inc.
  Massachusetts Appeals Court· 1988-01-11· cited 8×
• National Labor Relations Board v. Maine Caterers, Inc., Brotherhood of Industrial Caterers, Intervenor
  First Circuit· 1981-07-16· cited 3×