McDermott v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 1996 · most notably 63 Ga. App. 130 - Young v. Bureau of Unemployment Compensation (1940), Unemployment Compensation Commission v. Harvey (1942)
3 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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.
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Employment’ * * * means service, * * * performed for wages or under any contract of hire, written or oral, express or implied.””
11 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is unnecessary to determine whether the common law relation of master and servant exists between respondent and the barbers and other operatives in his shop, because the parties are brought within the purview of the unemployment compensation act by a definition more inclusive than that of master and servant.””
6 later decisions 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.