DeMonaco v. Renton’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2009 · most notably Harvey v. Essex County Board of Freeholders (1959), Township of Mahwah v. Bergen County Board of Taxation (1985)
3 federal appellate · 45 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 Louisville Gas & Electric Co. v. Coleman · Middleton v. Texas Power & Light Co. · New Jersey Turnpike Authority v. Parsons · Washington National Insurance v. Board of Review of New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Commission · Ward & Gow v. Krinsky
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The determinative factor as to whether a person is an employee or an independent contractor for the purposes of workmen's compensation is control; the relationship of master and servant exists whenever the employer retains the right to determine not only what shall be done, but how it shall be done.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“some substantial consideration of public policy or convenience or the service of the general welfare.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“insignificant in the overall view of the facts * * *.”
2 later decisions 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.