Buskirk v. Ide’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““It is a well-settled rule of law that when one person hires or lends his servant tb another for some particular work and resigns full control over him while performing that work, he ceases for the time to,be the servant of the original master and becomes the servant of the party to whom he is hired or lent. In determining whose servant he was the test is, who had the right to control him.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allen v. Kendall Hardware Mill Supply Co.

2. ““The rule is long settled that, a servant in the general employment of one person may also become the special servant of another, with all the mutual-rights and obligations of master and servant between them for the time of, and in relation to, the special service in which the servant is temporarily engaged. ’ ’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Allen v. Kendall Hardware Mill Supply Co.

3. ““There was conflicting testimony from which the. jury could reasonably find, as it did, that plaintiff at the time of his injury was an employee and not an independent contractor.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Rule v. Giuglio