Scofield v. Tinnin’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Here the laborers were not employees of the 'owner or tenant. The employer owned no land. The work done was not incidental to farming; it was -the sole occupation of the Ap-pellee. His work was a prelude to farming and ranching. The taxpayer was engaged in the improvement, but not in the farming, of land. He neither sowed nor reaped. His compensation came from the United States; his work was in conformity with the requirements of the Government. We, therefore, think that his enterprise was commercial and not agricultural as the latter term is above defined.”'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Sullivan · 228 So. 2d 361 - Mississippi Employment Security Commission v. Ballard Co.

2. ““ (K) Agricultural labor. — For purposes of this chapter, the term ‘agricultural labor’ includes all service performed— (1) on a farm, in the employ of any person, in connection with cultivating the soil, or in connection with raising or harvesting any agricultural or horticultural commodity, including the raising, shearing, feeding, caring for, training, and management of livestock, bees, poultry, and fur-bearing animals and wildlife. ’ ’”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Hanford Produce Co. v. Clemmons · State v. Sullivan

3. ““(2) The services described * * * may include, for example, services performed by carpenters, painters, mechan-jcs * * * bookkeepers, and other skilled or semiskilled workers, which contribute in any way to the conduct of the farm or farms, as such, operated by the person employing them, as distinguished from any other enterprise in which such person may be engaged. (3) Since the services described in this paragraph must be performed in the employ of the owner or tenant or other operator of the farm, services performed by employees of a commercial painting concern, for example, which contracts with a farmer to renovate his farm properties, do not constitute agricultural labor.” (Emphasis added.)”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Mid-Continent Aerial Sprayers, Inc. v. Industrial Commission, Division of Employment Security