Hexamer v. . Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 122 later decisions — most recently December 1962 · most notably In Re the Claim of Morton (1940), Broderick v. Cauldwell-Wingate Co. (1950)
11 federal appellate · 107 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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 Blake v. . Ferris · King v. . N.Y.C. H.R.R.R. Co.
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 122 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test lo determine whether one who renders service to anotlior does so as a contractor or not is to ascertain whether he renders the service in the course of an independent occupation, representing the will of his employer only as the result of his work, and not as to the means by which it is accomplished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.