Beach v. . McLean’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably Hayes v. . Elon College (1944), Henry v. A. C. Lawrence Leather Co. (1950)
2 federal appellate · 74 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.
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has no application here. [Section 97-19] relates to contractors and subcontractors — not to employers and independent contractors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“provided there is sufficient evidence to sustain the element of fact involved[ ]”
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.