Rice v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1972
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Moore & Chicago Mill & Lumber Co. v. Phillips · W. H. Moore Lumber Company v. Starrett · St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Gillihan · Wright v. McDaniel · Moaten v. Columbia Cotton Oil 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An independent contractor is one who, exercising an independent employment, contracts to do a certain piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer, except as to the result of the work.””
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.