Currier v. Abbott’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2018
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Mature v. Angelo · Charles v. . Barrett · Masterson v. Berlin Street Railway · H. E. Wolfe Const. Co. v. Fersner · Golding-Keene Co. v. Fidelity-Phenix Fire Insurance
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon the evidence in this case it could not be said that whatever Pratt did while hired out to Abbott 'must' as a matter of law be considered done in the service of Abbott.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“who exercised the 'right of control over the performance of that work to the extent of prescribing the manner in which it is to be executed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . the evidence plainly presented issues for the jury, . . .”
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.