Dowell v. Forrestal’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 1981
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 National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · United States v. Silk · Singer Manuf'G Co v. Rahn · Wolff & Phillips v. Macauley · Callahan v. War Contracts Price Adjustment Board
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Such a relationsbip [employee] exists where the employer retains the right to direct the manner in which the businesses to be done, as well as the result to be accomplished. Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Rahn, 132 U. S. 518, 523 . An “independent contractor” is most frequently defined as one who contracts to do certain work according to his own methods and without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to the product or result of his work. 27 Am. Jur., Independent Contractor, § 2, p. 481.”
2 later decisions 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.