Ross v. Post Publishing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2010 · most notably Doe v. Yale University (2000), Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Allen (2004)
2 district · 26 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 Birmingham Post Co. v. Sturgeon · Norwalk Gaslight Co. v. Borough of Norwalk · Gall v. Detroit Journal Co. · Jack and Jill, Inc. v. Tone · Robert C. Buell & Co. v. Danaher
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ultimate test is the right of general control of the means and methods used by the person whose status is involved.”
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.