Watland v. Walton’s Empirical Analysis
410 F.2d 1 · 1969
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2012
7 federal appellate · 3 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 Fauci v. United States · Marshall v. Isthmian Lines, Inc. · Tyler v. Dowell, Inc. · Mrs. Camille F. Lind v. Aetna Casualty and Surety Company · Arkansas Natural Gas Co. v. Miller
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to instruct the jurors, fully and correctly, on the applicable law of the case, and to guide, direct, and assist them toward an intelligent understanding of the legal and factual issues involved... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ordinarily the question whether the general or special employer had the right of control and thus was the employee's master, presents an issue of fact....”
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.