Nash v. Meguschar’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 152 Ind. App. 326 - Gibbs v. Miller Et Ux. (1972), 158 Ind. App. 676 - Jones v. Indianapolis Power & Light Co. (1973)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Warren v. Indiana Telephone Co. · Prest-O-Lite Co. v. Skeel · Wright v. Peabody Coal Co. · 92 Ind. App. 528 - Petzold v. McGregor · 118 Ind. App. 467 - Allen v. Kraft Food 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An independent contractor is one exercising an independent employment under a contract to do certain work by his own methods, without subjection to the control of his employer, except as to the product or result of the work. When the person employing may prescribe what shall be done, but not how it is to be done, or who is to do it, the person so employed is a contractor, and not a servant. The fact that the work is to be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of certain persons representing the employer does not render the person contracted with to do the work a servant. * * *.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage““(b) The term ‘employee,’ as used in this act, shall be construed to include every person, including a minor, in the service of another, under any contract of hire or apprenticeship, written or implied, except one whose employment is both casual and not in the usual course of the trade, business, occupation or profession of the employer. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Industrial Board is the trier of the facts in this case, and its decision on any question of fact is binding upon the Appellate Court on appeal, and upon this court on transfer, if it is sustained by competent evidence. Gibbons v. Henke et al. (1940), 108 Ind. App. 481, 484 , 29 N.E.2d 995 , supra; Wright v. Peabody Coal Co. (1948), 225 Ind. 679, 687 , 77 N.E.2d 116 ; Warren v. Indiana Telephone Co. (1940), 217 Ind. 93, 118 , 26 N.E.2d 399 ; Wilson v. Porter Handle & Cooperage Co. (1942), 112 Ind. App. 287, 290 , 44 N.E.2d 518 .”
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.