4 Va. App. 256 - Cotman v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 14 Va. App. 354 - Smith v. Hylton (1992), 50 Va. App. 199 - Hoffman v. Carter (2007)
27 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 Hoffer Bros. v. Smith · Mathers v. Sellers · 227 So. 2d 482 - Sudler v. Sun Oil Co. · 107 Ga. App. 240 - Baratta's Italian Restaurant v. Mason
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he number of persons used to carry out the established mode of performing the work of the business is determinative even though the work may be recurrent instead of constant.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“avoids adverse effects from unusual, temporary conditions.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Employee' means ... [e]very person ... in the service of another under any contract of hire or apprenticeship, written or implied, except ... one whose employment is not in the usual course of the trade, business, occupation or profession of the employer.”
2 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.