No. 02-2187’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
40 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably 561 F. Supp. 2d 162 - Medina v. Adecco (2008), Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities v. Echo Hose Ambulance (2016)
40 district · 1 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 Deposit Guaranty National Bank v. Roper · Nationwide Mutual Insurance v. Darden · Community for Creative Non-Violence v. Reid · United States v. American Ry Express Co Southeastern Express Co · California Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Guerra
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the hiring party’s right to control the manner and means by which the product is accomplished. Among other factors relevant to this inquiry are the skills required; the source of the instrumentalities and tools; the location of the work; the duration of the relationship between the parties; whether the hiring party has the right to assign additional projects to the hired party; the extent of the hired party’s discretion over when and how long to work; the method of payment; the hired party’s role in hiring and paying assistants; whether the work is part of the regular business of the hiring party; whether the hiring party is in business; the provision of employee benefits; and the tax treatment of the hired party.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a] party may not appeal from a favorable judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The test provides no shorthand formula or magic phrase that can be applied to find the answer, ... all of the incidents of the relationship must be assessed and weighed with no one factor being decisive. However, in most situations, the extent to which the hiring party controls “the manner and means” by which the worker completes her tasks will be the most important factor in the analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.