Meers v. Haughton Elevator’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Ges, Inc. v. Corbitt (2001), Sims v. General Telephone & Electronics (1991)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 26 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
Relies on Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. v. McReynolds · Cardenas Vda De Aragonez v. Taylor Steel Co. · Farish v. Courion Industries, Inc.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test (except in cases where the work is obviously a subcontracted fraction of a main contract) is whether that indispensable activity is, in that business, normally carried on through employees rather than independent contractors.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]ubcontractors, independent contractors and the employees of either [are] deemed to be employees of the principal contractor for the purposes of [the NIIA].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“2. When an employee receives an injury for which compensation is payable pursuant to the provisions of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, or chapter 617 of NRS and which was caused under circumstances creating a legal liability in some person, other than the employer or a person in the same employ, to pay damages in respect thereof: (a) The injured employee, or in case of death his dependents, may take proceedings against that person to recover damages ....”
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.