Craig v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Elizabeth River Tunnel District v. Beecher (1961), Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Gill (1982)
3 federal appellate · 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 Kelley's Dependents v. Hoosac Lumber Co. · Epperson v. DeJarnette · Davis Bakery, Inc. v. Dozier · Baker v. Nussman · Boyd, Higgins & Goforth, Inc. v. Mahone
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If under the contract the party for whom the work is being done may prescribe not only what the result shall be, but also direct the means and methods by which the other shall do the work, the former is an employer, and the latter an employee. But if the former may specify the result only, and the latter may adopt such means and methods as he chooses to accomplish that result, then the latter is not an employee, but an independent contractor.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ ‘The law defined an independent contractor to be a person who is employed to do a piece of work without restriction as to the means to be employed, and who employs his own labor and undertakes to do the work according to his own ideas, or in accordance with plans furnished by the person for whom the work is done, to whom the owner looks only for results.’ ””
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.