Carroll v. E. G. Laughlin & Sons’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2007
18 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 · Crosby Lumber & Manufacturing Co. v. Durham · Hutchinson-Moore Lumber Co. v. Pittman · Mills v. Jones
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where there exists a dual relationship of employee and contractor, and the authority and duties of the employee embrace the same subject matter as the contract, the court will not attempt a theoretical determination of whose control is being exercised in the performance of the contract. The right of control of the employer and independency of the contractor cannot coexist.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[o]ur law recognizes that a person may be an independent contractor as to certain work and a mere agent as to other work for the same employer.”
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.