Raber v. Commissioner’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “* * * We think that neither the amount of time devoted to performing legal services, nor the place where they are performed, is a controlling point in determining whether an attorney is an employee or an independent contractor. An independent contractor may devote his entire time for a period to a special job and still fall short of being an officer or employee of a State or political subdivision thereof. In other words, it is possible for an officer or employee to accept outside employment without changing the character of the services rendered by him, but it does not follow that one who is engaged to render service in a particular transaction and who must devote his entire time to such employment for the duration thereof, becomes an officer or employee within the meaning of the statute.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Burnett v. Commissioner