Nelson v. Slay’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 1973
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 Sones v. Southern Lumber Co. · Carr v. CRABTREE · Taylor v. Employers Mut. Liability Ins. Co. · 52 So. 2d 645 - Burnett v. Rushton · Hatch v. Industrial Lumber 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The vendor-vendee relationship is not within the coverage of the Act, since the Act applies only to accidental injury sustained by an employee and there must exist a contract of hire. In the determination of whether the relationship of vendor and vendee actually exists, the contractual relationships must be carefully scrutinized for an objective determination of the factual agreement between and the legal status of the parties, but where the arrangement is in good faith and is not a mere subterfuge or pretense, it will be recognized for what it is and excluded from coverage under the act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... Although evasions of coverage under the act should not be permitted, courts must balance the terms of this legislation against the rights of persons to create a legitimate contractual relationship of vendor-vendee. ( 216 Miss. at 651 , 63 So.2d at 49 )”
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.