Barnes v. Towlson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently July 2010
2 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 SMALICH v. Westfall · Henkelmann v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Wesolowski v. John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. · 266 So. 2d 89 - Whetzel v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company · Hutchins v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A]n exception to this rule would exist, in case of an employee who uses his car in furtherance of his work and while he is driving to a business appointment, since such a person is working and under his employer's control from time he leaves the house in the morning until he returns at night." [2]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The distinction drawn between these terms [agent and independent contractor] centers on the principal’s right of control over the activities of the agent[ ].”
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.