Irvan v. Bounds’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Parker Stave Company v. Hines (1945), Massey v. Poteau Trucking Co. (1953)
4 federal appellate · 37 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 Murray's Case · Bowen v. Gradison Construction Company · 3 Smith & H. 202 - Odom v. Sanford & Treadway · Franklin Coal & Coke Co. v. Industrial Commission · Industrial Commission v. Bonfils
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A reasonable interpretation of this statement is that Irvan was complying with the Federal Wage-Hour Law as to the pay of these men, and it indicates that Irvan considered Bounds to be an employee, because, if Bounds was an independent contractor, and not an employee, it was not necessary, in order to comply with the federal law, to guarantee him any minimum wage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““By virtue of its power to discharge, the company could, at any moment, direct the minutest detail and method of the work. The fact, if a fact, that it did not do so is immaterial. It is the power of control, not the fact of control, that is the principal factor in distinguishing a servant from a contractor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘ “The power to discharge has been regarded as the test by which to determine whether the relation of master and servant exists. While it is not the sole test, it is the best test upon the question of control.” ’ ””
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.