Baker v. Nussman’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Hadeed v. Medic-24, Ltd. (1989), Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Gill (1982)
29 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 Standard Oil Company v. Edward Anderson · Stonega Coke & Coal Co. v. Sutherland
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.
“never [were] intended to affect the status of a sub-contractor. [They] only took in a class of employees (employees of a subcontractor) and made them eligible to compensation just as the employees of the owner or contractor are eligible under the definition of employees as defined in . . . the Act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“What constitutes an employee is a question of law; but, whether the facts bring a person within the law's designation, is usually a question of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A sub-contractor does not, anywhere, come within the terms of the Act as entitled to compensation.”
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.