Houdek v. Gloyd’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably Jones v. City of Dodge City (1965), Wallis v. Secretary of Kansas Department of Human Resources (1984)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 26 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 Hurla ex rel. Hurla v. Capper Publications, Inc. · Pottorff v. Fidelity Coal Mining Co. · McKinstry v. Guy Coal Co. · Moseman v. L. M. Penwell Undertaking Co. · Dobson v. Baxter Chat 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A master is a principal who employs another to perform service for him, and who controls or has the right to control the physical conduct of the other in the performance of such service, and the servant is the person so employed. “An independent contractor is generally one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods and without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to die result of his work.” (Syl. ¶¶ 2, 3.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) A servant is a person employed to perform service for another in his affairs and who, with respect to his physical conduct in the performance of the service, is subject to the other’s control or right to control. “(2) In determining whether one acting for another is a servant or an independent contractor, the following matters of fact, among others, are considered: “(e) Whether the employer or the workman supplies the instrumentalities, tools, and the place of work for the person doing the work; “(f) the length of time for which the person is employed; “(g) the method of payment, whether by the time or by the job; “(h) whether or not the work is a part of the regular business of the employer; . '. .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sims v. Dietrich“A master is a principal who employs another to perform service in his affairs and who controls or has the right to control the physical conduct of the other in the performance of the service.”
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.