Hammermill Paper Co. v. Rust Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 135 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Consumer Party of Pennsylvania v. Com. (1986), Reese v. Danforth (1979)
5 federal appellate · 116 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 Bata v. Central-Penn Nat. Bank of Phila. · Hader v. Coplay Cement Mfg. Co. · Silveus v. Grossman · Layman v. Continental Assurance Co. · 184 Pa. Super. 634 - Stepp v. Renn
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 135 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Control of manner work is to be done; responsibility for result only; terms of agreement between the parties; the nature of the work or occupation; skill required for performance; whether one is engaged in a distinct occupation or business; which party supplied the tools; whether payment is by the time or by the job; whether work is part of the regular business of the employer, and also the right to terminate the employment at any time.”
28 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.