Pearson v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently August 2011
1 federal appellate · 21 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 State Ex Rel. Pensacola News-Journal, Inc. v. Fleet · In Re Fla. Rules of Judicial Administration · Florida Power and Light Co. v. Price · Williams, Et Ux. v. Robineau · 385 So. 2d 676 - Atlantic Coast Dev. v. Napoleon Steel
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]t common law, the four elements considered in making a determination of whether a master and servant relationship exists are (1) the selection and engagement of the servant, (2) the payment of wages, (3) the power of dismissal, and (4) the control of the servant's conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the existence of an employer-employee relationship is normally one for the jury....”
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.