State v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

13 state decisions

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.

1. “Services performed by an individual for wages shall be deemed to be employment subject to this chapter unless and until it is shown to the satisfaction of the commissioner that: (i) Such individual has been and will continue to be free from control or direction over the performance of such services, both under his contract of service and in fact; and (ii) Such service is either outside the usual course of the business for which such service is performed, or that such service is performed outside of all the places of business of the enterprise for which such service is performed; and (iii) Such individual is customarily engaged in an independently established trade, occupation, profession or business.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fleece on Earth v. Department of Employment & Training · Fleece on Earth v. Dept. of Employment and Training

2. “[i]t is plain from its terms that the three concomitant conditions [of the ABC test] bring under the definition of `employment' many relationships outside of the common law concepts of the relationships of master and servant.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Great Northern Construction, Inc. v. Department of Labor · Fleece on Earth v. Dept. of Employment and Training

3. “performed outside of all the places of business of the enterprise for which such service is performed.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fleece on Earth v. Dept. of Employment and Training