Alexander v. Rush North Shore Medical Center’s Empirical Analysis
101 F.3d 487 · 1996
Citation profile
45 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 103 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Llampallas v. Mini-Circuits, Lab, Inc. (1998), McClendon v. Indiana Sugars, Inc. (1997)
45 federal appellate · 9 district · 8 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. § 1002 (§ 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 701 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) · 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 703 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Darden · Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid · Sibley Memorial Hospital v. Wilson · Doe ex rel. Doe v. St. Joseph's Hospital of Fort Wayne · Spirides v. Reinhardt
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 103 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the extent of the employer’s control and supervision over the worker, including directions on scheduling and performance of work, (2) the kind of occupation and nature of skill required, including whether skills are obtained in the workplace, (3) responsibility for the costs of operation, such as equipment, supplies, fees, licenses, workplace, and maintenance of operations, (4) method and form of payments and benefits, and (5) the length of the job commitment and/or expectations.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“In determining whether a hired party is an employee under the general common law of agency, we consider the hiring party's right to control the manner and means by which the product is accomplished.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[T]he employer's right to control is the most important”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.