Nicholas v. Richlow Mfg. Co.’s Empirical Analysis
126 F.2d 16 · 1941
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 1993
5 federal appellate · 4 district ·
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 42 U.S.C. § 1101 (§ 901 of the Social Security Act of 1935) · 42 U.S.C. § 301 (§ 1 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Helvering v. Winmill · Fawcus Mach Co v. United States · Griswold v. United States · Deecy Products Co. v. Welch
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An officer of a corporation is an employee of the corporation, but a director, as such, is not. A director may be an employee of the corporation, however, if he performs services for the corporation other than those required by attendance at and participation in meetings of the board of directors.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We think the purpose of Congress in enacting the definition above quoted was to set the question at rest and include all corporate officers in the category of employees.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(i) Employee. The term ‘employee’ includes an officer of a corporation.””
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.