Mathers v. Sellers’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2017
10 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 Mobile Liners, Inc. v. McConnell · Palle v. Industrial Commission · Marshall v. Industrial Commission · Comerford v. Carr · Lacroix v. Frechette
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order, therefore, to bring employment within the purview of our Act, it was necessary to show the existence of an established mode or plan of hiring three or more persons pursuant to some constant or periodic custom resulting in a numerical pattern of employment that becomes the rule and not the exception.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he term `employment' shall include: [a]ll private employments in which three or more employees are employed by the same employer.”
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.