Clancy's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 1954
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 Pigeon's Case · Shepard v. Jacobs · Comerford's Case · W. S. Quinby Co. v. Estey · Tornroos v. R. H. White 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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is plain that there can be no recovery. The deceased had no contract of any kind with the city. His contract of employment was exclusively with McGillieuddy, who alone was responsible for his wages. This is the plain case- where the city hired from another horses, cart, and driver to carry material from one place to another as its servants or officers might direct, the driver being left to deal with the horses in his own way. As was said in Peach v. Bruno, 224 Mass. 447 ( 113 N. E. 279 ), nothing is better settled, under such circumstances, when nothing-more appears, than that, as matter of law, the driver is the servant of the owner of the horses, and not of the one who hires them. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knudson v. Jackson
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.