Bean v. Gibbens’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently December 1983
6 federal appellate · 9 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 Braly v. Commercial Casualty Insurance · State Ex Rel. Maryland Casualty Co. v. Hughes
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘To engage in one’s service; to use an agent or substitute in transacting business; to commission and intrust with the management of one’s affairs; and, when used in respect to a servant or hired laborer, the term is equivalent to hiring, which implies a request and a contract for a compensation, and has but this one meaning when used in the ordinary affairs and business of life.’ ” 175 Kan. at 642 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The task performed by said Wilbur Leroy Bean for defendant was occasional, incidental, casual and a neighborly act.” (p. 640.)”
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.