Pressley v. Turner’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2013
3 federal appellate · 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 Hayes v. . Elon College · Hinkle v. City of Lexington · Ewing v. Thompson · Perley v. . Paving Co. · Pearson v. PEERLESS FLOORING COMPANY
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The distinction between an independent contractor and a servant, employee, or agent has been clearly drawn in numerous recent cases. Tersely stated, the test which will determine the relationship between parties where work is being done by one which will advantage another is: Who is boss of the job?”
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.