Winchester v. Seay’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably Bennett v. Mid-South Terminals Corp. (1983), Latham v. Technar, Inc. (1974)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Nepstad v. Lambert · 2 Smith & H. 491 - King v. Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. · Seaman Body Corp. v. Industrial Commission · Cayll v. Waukesha Gas & Electric Co. · Armstrong v. Spears
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.
“(a) The employee has made a contract of hire, express or implied, with the special employer; (b) The work being done is essentially that of the special employer; (c) The special employer has the right to control the details of the work.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . such ancillary activities as maintenance and repair are now generally deemed to be within the course of the employer’s usual business.””
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.