Texas Refining Co. v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Hayes v. . Elon College (1944), Shannon v. Western Indemnity Co. (1924)
1 federal appellate · 26 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 Wallace v. Southern Cotton Oil Co. · Higgins v. . Western Union Telegraph Co. · Cunningham v. International Railroad · Odum v. Garner · Mexican National Railway Co. v. Mussette
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Very high authority has said, in effect, “No man can serve two masters.” This principle is fundamental in the law of master and servant. There cannot be more than one responsible superior for the same subordinate at the same time and in the same transaction. When it is conceded one is the servant of one of two or more persons, it is sometimes difficult to tell who is the master. In modern industry the line of cleavage is often difficult of ascertainment. Before one is the master he must have the right and power to control the servant in the particular work in hand, however temporary may be that right and power.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““No better test can be applied than to say that the relation of master and servant exists-where the master retains or exercises the power of control in directing, not merely the end*, sought to be accomplished by the employment of another, but as well the -means and details-of its accomplishment; ‘not only what shall be-done, but how it shall be done.’ ””
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.