Security Union Ins. Co. v. McLeod’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 1981 · most notably Eagle Trucking Co. v. Texas Bitulithic Co. (1981), Brinkley Heavy Hauling Co. v. Youngman (1954)
3 federal appellate · 23 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 Wallace v. Southern Cotton Oil Co. · American Indemnity Co. v. Dinkins · 47 Tex. Civ. App. 140 - Smith v. Humphreyville · Hall v. Williams Ellis
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The relation of master and servant exists, where the master retains or exercises the power of control in directing, not merely the end sought to be accomplished, but as well, the means and details of its accomplishment; not only what shall be done, but how it shall be done.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The mere right of a person who has let out a contract, to supervise the work in such a way as to see that it is performed according to contract, does not make the employees of the contractor his employees. Simonton v. Perry (Tex.Civ.App.) 62 S.W. 1090 ; Smith v. Humphreyville, 47 Tex.Civ.App. 140 , 104 S.W. 495 , writ of error refused; American Indemnity Co. v. Dinkins (Tex.Civ.App.) 211 S.W. 949 , writ of error refused.””
1 later decision 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.