Hiller v. Goodwin’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2003
17 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 Standard Oil Company v. Edward Anderson · Denton v. Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad · Railroad Retirement Board v. Duquesne Warehouse Co. · J. R. Watkins Co. v. Goggans · Johnson v. Battles
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In determining whether the general master of a servant or one to whom the servant has been loaned or hired is responsible for the servant’s acts he is to be deemed the master who has the supreme choice, control and direction of the servant and whose will the servant represents not merely in the ultimate result of his work, but in all its details.””
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.