Jonites v. Exelon Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that waiver of statutory rights must be “explicit”
• collective could not be certified where putative class contained employees that were not subject to the same meal break policies
• de- scribing a collective action as “hopelessly heterogeneous” where it included employees who did not work the day shift and thus had no conceivable claim based on the employer’s daytime lunch policy
• de- scribing a collective action as “hopelessly heterogeneous” where it included employees who did not work the day shift and thus had no conceivable claim based on the employer’s daytime lunch policy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Alvarez v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-05-21· cited 141×
• Jirak v. Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 2008-07-22· cited 89×
• Affymax, Inc. v. Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2011-10-03· cited 44×
• Jose Ageo Luna Vanegas v. Signet Builders, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2024-08-16· cited 28×
• Musch v. Domtar Industries, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-11-25· cited 27×
• Luis Vega v. New Forest Home Cemetery, LLC
  Seventh Circuit· 2017-05-15· cited 26×
• Callahan v. City of Chicago
  N.D. Illinois· 2015-01-23· cited 23×
• Brand v. Comcast Corp. & Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC
  N.D. Illinois· 2015-09-28· cited 16×
• Strait v. Belcan Engineering Group, Inc.
  N.D. Illinois· 2012-11-29· cited 15×
• Manuele v. City of Springfield, Ill.
  C.D. Illinois· 2010-06-10· cited 3×
• Mendez v. Mid-Wilshire Health
  California Court of Appeal· 2013-10-15
• Alan Musch v. Domtar Industries, Incorporate
  Seventh Circuit· 2009-11-25
• Deborah Alvarez v. City of Chicago
  Seventh Circuit· 2010-05-21
• AC&S INC. v. Jeffrey R. George
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2020-11-17
• Monica Richards v. Eli Lilly & Company
  Seventh Circuit· 2025-08-05

Cites

29 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Skidmore v. Swift & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1944-12-04· cited 4,567×
• Vaca v. Sipes
  Supreme Court· 1967-02-27· cited 4,450×
• Barrentine v. Arkansas-Best Freight System, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1981-04-06· cited 1,393×
• Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad v. Muscoda Local No. 123
  Supreme Court· 1944-05-29· cited 713×
• McDonald v. City of West Branch
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-18· cited 581×
• Wright v. Universal Maritime Service Corp.
  Supreme Court· 1999-01-25· cited 487×
• Local 15, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers v. Exelon Corp.
  Seventh Circuit· 2007-07-31· cited 155×
• Vincent L. Pryner, Counterclaim v. Tractor Supply Company, Counterclaim Eugene Sobierajski v. Thoesen Tractor & Equipment Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1997-03-20· cited 131×
• O'Brien v. Town of Agawam
  First Circuit· 2003-12-02· cited 113×
• Lance Wise and Nancy Wise v. Wachovia Securities, Llc, and Nasd
  Seventh Circuit· 2006-06-07· cited 102×
• Plumley v. Southern Container, Inc.
  First Circuit· 2002-09-13· cited 101×
• George Watts & Son, Inc. v. Tiffany and Company
  Seventh Circuit· 2001-04-18· cited 72×
• John H. Harkins v. Riverboat Services, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2004-10-06· cited 67×
• Robert H. Tice v. American Airlines, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-04-30· cited 64×
• Bernard v. IBP, Inc. of Nebraska
  Fifth Circuit· 1998-09-21· cited 53×
• Susan Rogers v. New York University
  Second Circuit· 2000-07-17· cited 51×
• Vira Goldman v. Architectural Iron Co.
  Second Circuit· 2002-10-07· cited 49×
• Pabst v. Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 2000-09-20· cited 40×
• Reich v. Southern New England Telecommunications Corp.
  Second Circuit· 1997-07-31· cited 33×
• Daniel Leahy, James Martinez, Michael D. Moore v. City of Chicago, Illinois
  Seventh Circuit· 1996-11-07· cited 28×