Floyd v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Evans v. Bf Perkins Company a Division of Standex International Corporation (1999), Shell Oil Co. v. Leftwich (1972)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 39 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 Feitig v. Chalkley · Sykes v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. · Anderson v. Thorington Construction Co. · Rea, Administratrix v. Ford · Williams v. E. T. Gresham 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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he test is not whether the owner, by engaging an independent contractor to perform some part of his business, thereby engages in the business of the independent contractor. It is whether the independent contractor is performing work that is part of the trade, business or occupation of the owner.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is immaterial whether the defendant was an independent contractor or a fellow-servant of the plaintiff [if BSI] was engaged in the business of the plaintiffs employer when her injuries were sustained. The purpose of the Workmen’s Compensation Act is to limit recovery to all persons engaged in the business of the employer to compensation under the Act and to deny an injured person the right of recovery against any other person unless he is a stranger to the business.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a part of the trade, business, or occupation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.