Smith v. Horn’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Evans v. Bf Perkins Company a Division of Standex International Corporation (1999), Henderson v. Central Tel. Co. of Virginia (1987)
9 federal appellate · 48 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 Feitig v. Chalkley · Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. v. McReynolds · Shell Oil Co. v. Leftwich · Sykes v. Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. · Whalen v. Dean Steel Erection Co., Inc.
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When any [owner] undertakes to perform or execute any work which is a part of his trade, business or occupation and contracts with any [subcontractor] for the execution or performance by or under such subcontractor of the whole or any part of the work undertaken by such owner, the owner shall be liable to pay to any workman employed in the work any compensation under this Act which he would have been liable to pay if the workman had been immediately employed by him.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Code § 65.1-29 contemplates that an owner may perform or execute work that is part of his trade, business, or occupation through contractors and subcontractors, directly employing no workers for the purpose; if the work performed by an employee of the contractor or subcontractor is part of the owner’s trade, business, or occupation, the woiker is deemed the statutory employee of the owner, and the owner is liable for compensation as though the worker were his own employee.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“was unquestionably a fraction of this main business concern.”
3 later decisions 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.