Bostic v. Connor’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
788 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 798 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably State v. Schiebel (1990), 87 Ohio App. 3d 704 - Brown v. Scioto Cty. Bd. of Commrs. (1993)
788 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 Chapman v. State of California · Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Temple v. Wean United, Inc. · Harless v. Willis Day Warehousing Co. · United States v. United States Gypsum 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 798 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The factors to be considered include, but are certainly not limited to, such indicia as who controls the details and quality of the work; who controls the hours worked; who selects the materials, tools and personnel used; who selects the routes travelled; the length of employment; the type of business; the method of payment; and any pertinent agreements or contracts.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whether one is an independent contractor or in service depends upon the facts of each case. The principal test applied to determine the character of the arrangement is that if the employer reserves the right to control the manner or means of doing the work, the relation created is that of master and servant, while if the manner or means of doing the work or job is left to one who is responsible to the employer only for the result, an independent contractor relationship is thereby created.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the evidence is not in conflict or the facts are admitted, the question of whether a person is an employee or an independent contractor is a matter of law to be determined by the court.”
9 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.