Strait v. Hale Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently November 2014
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 2 Cal. 3d 956 - Hinman v. Westinghouse Electric Co. · Johnston v. Long · 52 Cal. 2d 698 - McFarland v. Voorheis-Trindle Co. · Billing v. Southern Pacific Co. · 267 Cal. App. 2d 881 - Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Lan Franco
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The cases dealing with the loaned servant problem are confusing in their lack of consistency. As has been aptly stated, “not only are the holdings as between different jurisdictions inconsistent and irreconcilable, but the holdings within any one jurisdiction are vulnerable to the same charge.” Justice Cardozo noted that the problem “is beset with distinctions so delicate that chaos is the consequence.” [Footnotes omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kastner v. Toombs
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.