Linstead v. Chesapeake & O Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Bowen v. Gradison Construction Company (1930), Massolini v. Driscoll (1932)
2 federal appellate · 34 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals)
Relationships
Relies on Standard Oil Company v. Edward Anderson · Hull v. Philadelphia & Reading Railway Co. · Hull v. Philadelphia & R Ry Co · Linstead v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co.
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we must inquire whose is the work being performed, a question which is usually answered by ascertaining who has the power to control and direct the servants in the performance of their work. Here we must carefully distinguish between authoritative direction and control, and mere suggestion as to details or the necessary cooperation, where the work furnished is part of a larger undertaking.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Jaskolski v. Daniels
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.