Radio City Music Hall Corp. v. United States’s Empirical Analysis
135 F.2d 715 · 1943
Citation profile
93 federal appellate · 18 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 222 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2019 · most notably Poller v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. (1962), Perma Research & Development Co. v. Singer Co. (1969)
93 federal appellate · 18 district · 8 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1001 (§ 801 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Rahn · Jones v. Goodson · Texas Co. v. Higgins · Williams v. United States
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 222 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test lies in the degree to which the principal may intervene to control the details of the agent's performance; and that in the end is all that can be said”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a party presents evidence on which, taken by itself, it would be entitled to a directed verdict if believed, and which the opposite party does not discredit as dishonest, it rests upon that party at least to specify some opposing evidence which it can adduce and which will change the result.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““We accept Article 3 of Regulation 91 as an authoritative definition of the distinction between an ‘employee’ and an ‘independent contractor’: it is really no more than a gloss upon the definition contained in Justice Gray’s opinion in Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Rahn, 132 U.S. 518, 523 , 10 S.Ct. 175 , 33 L.Ed. 440 . We assumed its conclusiveness in Texas Company v. Higgins, supra, [2 Cir.], 118 F.2d 636, 638 , and so have the Tenth Circuit (Jones v. Goodson, 121 F.2d 176, 179 ) and the Seventh (Williams v. United States, 126 F.2d 129, 132 ). The test lies in the degree to which the principal may intervene to control the details of the agent’s performance; and that in the end is all that can be said, although the regulation redundantly elaborated it.””
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.