Melancon v. Keller’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 1995
5 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 86 So. 2d 704 - Welch v. Newport Industries · 121 So. 2d 851 - De Rouen v. Aiavolasiti · 127 So. 2d 238 - Rashall v. Fallin & Savage Timber Co.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Independent Contractor' means any person who renders service, other than manual labor, for a specified recompense for a specified result either as a unit or as a whole, under the control of his principal as to results of his work only, and not as to the means by which such result is accomplished, and are expressly excluded from the provisions of this Chapter unless a substantial part of the work time of an independent contractor is spent in manual labor by him in carrying out the terms of the contract, in which case the independent contractor is expressly covered by the provisions of this Chapter." (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he true legal meaning of the term `manual labor' is to denote work wherein the physical element predominates over the mental.”
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.