Grace v. Magruder’s Empirical Analysis
148 F.2d 679 · 1945
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2018 · most notably United States v. Silk (1947), United States v. W. M. Webb, Inc. (1970)
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 6 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 29 U.S.C. § 151 (§ 1 of the National Labor Relations Act) · 29 U.S.C. § 201 (American Samoa Labor Standards Amendments of 1956)
Relies on United States v. American Trucking Associations · National Labor Relations Board v. Hearst Publications, Inc. · Gould v. Gould · South Chicago Coal & Dock Co. v. Bassett · Warner v. Goltra
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The vital element which negatives such independence, in the relation between employer and employee, is the right to control the employee, not only as to the final result, but in the performance of the task itself. And, it is the right to control, not control or supervision itself, which is most important.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““(c) Generally, physicians, lawyers, dentists, veterinarians, contractors, subcontractors, public stenographers, auctioneers, and others who follow an independent trade, business or profession, in which they offer their services to the public, are not employees.””
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.