McKinstry v. Guy Coal Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 1985 · most notably Hillen v. Industrial Accident Commission (1926), Bowen v. Gradison Construction Company (1930)
40 state decisions — followed in 14 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 Pottorff v. Fidelity Coal Mining Co. · Maughlelle v. Price · Farmer v. Purcell · Klapper v. J. R. Burnett Coal & Mining 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant was operating, a coal mine in Cherokee county. The plaintiff with his boy was digging coal for the defendant at sixty cents for each mine car of coal produced. The plaintiff furnished his own tools and supplied his own material, such as powder, fuses, paper, etc., to be used in mining coal. The defendant argues that this made the plaintiff an independent contractor and took him out of the operation of the workmen’s compensation act. . . . The plaintiff was an employee within the meaning of the workmen’s compensation act.” (pp. 193, 194.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shay v. Hill““When the mine in which the plaintiff worked was not in operation, he did not earn wages, but his compensation should not be reduced because the mine did not run full time. His compensation should be calculated for the period fixed by law, at the rate fixed by law, whether the mine was operated all the time or only part of the time.” (p. 194.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Miles v. Wyatt
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.