Sharp v. Jenkins’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
3
states following
December 1987
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barrell v. Wessel · Anderson v. Volz Const. Co. · National Surety Corp. v. Kemp · Great American Indemnity Company v. Friddell · Millican v. Home Stores, Inc.
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The employee’s duties were not definitely defined, but he was to carry out the orders of the owner; 2. There was no separation of wages for the hours worked on the home and on the job; 3. The employee had only one employer whose directions he was to follow; 4.The employee was originally hired as a handyman to work in the yard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McWhirter v. Kimbro
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.