Setter v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably State v. Lopez (2001), Giltner v. Stephens (1947)
38 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 Kopplin v. County of Sedgwick · Redfern v. Eby
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to render a person liable as a principal for compensation to a workman under G. S. 1935, 44-503 (a), it is necessary that the principal shall have undertaken to execute work which is a part of his trade or business or that he shall have contracted to perform work for another.” (Syl. ¶[ 2.)”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The workmen’s compensation act was intended to apply only to employment in the trade or business of the employer and, if the trade or business of the employer does not bring him within the terms of the act, he has no liability thereunder.” “The mere owning of a house or building, maintaining it and keeping it in repair so that it may produce an income, is not sufficient to constitute a trade or business, but such transactions, at most, only amount to a trade or business, within the meaning of the workmen’s compensation act, when they are carried on to such an extent as to require a substantial and habitual devotion of time and labor to their management and operation.” (Syl. ¶¶ 1, 2.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It would appear therefrom that the weight of authority is that the mere owning of a house, maintaining it and keeping it in repair so that it may produce an income, is not sufficient to constitute a trade or business, but such transactions, at most, amount only to a trade or business, within the meaning of the compensation act, when they are carried on to such an extent as to require a substantial and habitual devotion of time and labor to their management and operation.” (p. 450.) (Italics inserted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shrout v. Lewis
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.