Wright v. McDaniel’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently December 1967
2 federal appellate · 16 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 St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Hempfling · Bristol & Gale Co. v. Industrial Commission · Hobbs-Western Co. v. Carmical · Midland Valley Railroad v. Ennis · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Owens
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The conclusion as to the relationship must be drawn from all the circumstances in proof, and where there is any substantial evidence tending to show that the right of control over the manner of doing the work was reserved, it became a question for the jury whether or not the relation was that of master and servant.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`The fact that the employer may at any time terminate the performance of the work by discharging the employee is of considerable weight, as tending to show that the employee is not an independent contractor. Bristol & Gale Co. v. Industrial Commission, 292 Ill. 16 , 126 N.E. 599 .' 31 C.J. 475.”
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.