McDermott's Case’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Kelley v. Rossi (1985), Speen v. Crown Clothing Corp. (1996)
6 federal appellate · 4 district · 76 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 Driscoll v. Towle · Matter of Glielmi v. Netherland Dairy Co. · Khoury v. Edison Electric Illuminating Co. · Shepard v. Jacobs · Chisholm's Case
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The exact point at issue is whether the claimant was a servant or employee, or an independent contractor. The essence of the distinction is the right of control.... Other considerations and tests are important only as they bear upon the right of control.”
2 later decisions 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.