Stapleton v. Administrator’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably Cervantes v. Administrator (1979), Guevara v. Administrator (1977)
35 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 Lanyon v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act · Reger v. Administrator, Unemployment Compensation Act · Almada v. Administrator · Leclerc v. Administrator · 22 Wash. 2d 760 - Henry Broderick, Inc. v. Riley
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“courts have uniformly held such a contract to mean one where the services to be performed by the employee must be compensated for in wages or their equivalent. It is impossible to have a contract of hire unless the person denominated the employer has an obligation to pay the person employed.”
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.