19 Utah 2d 435 - Foster v. Steed’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2014 · most notably Webster v. Sill (1983), Hovatter v. Shell Oil Company (1974)
2 district · 19 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 17 Utah 2d 37 - Leininger v. Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Company · Coe v. Esau · Shaver v. Bell · 17 Utah 2d 420 - Controlled Receivables, Inc. v. Harman · Jon R. Smith v. Cities Service Oil Company, Michael Smith, by Jon R. Smith, Next Friend v. Cities Service Oil Company
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[InjJone of the evidence cited by plaintiff indicates that Texaco retained control of the [franchisee's] day-to-day operation but, rather, merely influenced the result to be achieved, revealing an independent contractor status.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“there is no genuine issue as to any material fact and that the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Webster v. Sill
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.