Eden v. Spaulding’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably Maloney v. Kaminski (1985), McCurry v. School District of Valley (1993)
4 district · 30 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 Lane v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Maricle v. Spiegel · Erspamer Advertising Co. v. Department of Labor · Stephens v. Celeryvale Transport, Inc. · Kremlacek v. Sedlacek
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) the extent of control which, by the agreement, the employer may exercise over the details of the work, (2) whether the one employed is engaged in a distinct occupation or business, (3) the kind of occupation, with reference to whether, in the locality, the work is usually done under the direction of the employer or by a specialist without supervision, (4) the skill required in the particular occupation, (5) whether the employer or the one employed supplies the instrumentalities, tools, and the place of work for the person doing the work, (6) the length of time for which the one employed is engaged, (7) the method of payment, whether by the time or by the job, (8) whether the work is part of the regular business of the employer, (9) whether the parties believe they are creating an agency relationship, and (10) whether the employer is or is not in business. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Generally, control, or the right of control, is the chief criterion in determining whether someone acts as an independent contractor.” . . . “However, even the employer of an independent contractor may, without changing the status, exercise such control as is necessary to assure performance of the contract in accordance with its terms.””
1 later decision 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.