Bosher v. Jamerson’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Whalen v. Dean Steel Erection Co., Inc. (1985), Burroughs v. Walmont, Inc. (1969)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 47 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 Floyd v. Mitchell · Buffalo Shook Company v. Barksdale
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“.... In this case the stacking of sheetrock in the several rooms constituted the final act of delivery, not an act of construction. So Burroughs’ activities did not transcend delivery, and he was not engaged in the trade, business or occupation of Lindsey & Waldron. Lindsey & Waldron was therefore an”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“involved the mining, processing, and sale of coal from properties it owned or leased. [The subcontractors] were independent contractors engaged to mine coal on land owned or leased by [the coal company] and to transport the coal to [the coal company's] preparation plant. Horn and Smith, as employees of these two contractors, were performing duties within this purpose Smith hauling supplies to the Carrie mine and Horn driving a load of coal from the Potter mine to the [coal company's] plant. As both Smith and Horn were acting within the scope of their employment and as both contractors were carrying out a part of the trade, business, or occupation of [the coal company], Smith and Horn were fellow statutory employees of [the coal company] and Smith's common-law action against Horn was barred under [the exclusivity provision of the Act].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“: Re-Com’s contract with Reynolds required it to lay a six-inch sand base over the foundation area. Bosher, who undertook to deliver the sand ordered by Re-Com, was obligated to”
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.