Birchem v. Knights of Columbus’s Empirical Analysis
116 F.3d 310 · 1997
Citation profile
44 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2021 · most notably PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin (2001), Den Hartog v. Wasatch Academy (1997)
44 federal appellate · 7 district · 3 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 28 U.S.C. § 1367 · 42 U.S.C. § 12111 (§ 101 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990) · 42 U.S.C. § 12112 (§ 102 of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990)
Relies on United Mine Workers of America v. Gibbs · St. Mary's Honor Center v. Hicks · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Darden · Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid · Henderson v. Brown
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he hiring party’s right to control the manner and means by which the product is accomplished; the skill required by the hired party; the duration of the relationship between the parties; the hiring party’s right to assign additional projects; the hired party’s discretion over when and how to work; the method of payment; the hired party’s role in hiring and paying assistants; whether the work is part of the hiring pai'ty’s regular business; the hired party’s employee benefits; and tax treatment of the hired party’s compensation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he ADA protects 'employees' but not independent contractors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“28 U.S.C. 1367(c)(1). Indeed, when state and federal claims are joined and all federal claims are dismissed on a motion for summary judgment, the state claims are ordinarily”
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.