Smith v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2000
2 federal appellate · 6 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 Wylie-Stewart MacHinery Co. v. Thomas · Hodges v. Holding · City of Tulsa v. Randall · Hull v. Enid General Hospital Foundation · Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. v. Wilhoit
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all authority to control or direct the manner and method of the work to be done and surrendered such direction and control to the special employer.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f the general employer has not resigned full control of the servant for the time during which the work is being performed, then the servant does not become the servant of the person for whom the work is performed merely because such person points out the work to the servant or gives him directions as to details of and manner of doing the work.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“doctrine provides: Servant lent by master to another for particular employment, although remaining general servant of master, must be dealt with as servant of one to whom he is lent, as regards anything done in the latter's employment. Smith v. Hall, 1966 OK 103, ¶ 11 , 418 P.2d 665 , 669 and syllabus 8 (citing Wylie-Stewart Mach. Co. v. Thomas, 1948 OK 88 , 137 P.2d 556 (syllabus 2)). In applying the”
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.