Ratliff v. Redmon’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2019
22 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 Stokes v. Henderson · Robinson v. Lytle · Locust Coal Company v. Bennett
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the method of payment is by the job or unit of work, the relationship of independent contractor is suggested. If the payment is by the hour or for a period, we may look for an employee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davis v. Perkins
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.