Dahl v. Wunderlich’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
1 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 1976
1 district · 14 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 Standard Oil Company v. Edward Anderson · Hull v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. · McNamara v. . Leipzig · Herron v. Coolsaet Bros. · Hull v. Philadelphia & R Ry Co
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.
““But employment, like any other contract, presupposes understanding. The new relation cannot be thrust upon the servant without knowledge or consent. (McNamara v. Leipzig, 227 N. Y. 291 , 125 N. E. 244 , 8 A. L. R. 480; Standard Oil Co. v. Anderson, 212 U. S. 215, 221 , 29 S. Ct. 252 , 53 L. ed. 480; Hull v. Philadelphia & Reading Ry. Co. 252 U. S. 475 , 40 S. Ct. 358 , 64 L. ed. 670.) He must understand that he is submitting himself to the control of a new master. * * * There can be no unwitting transfer from one service to another.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.