Boyle v. Vanderhoof’s Empirical Analysis
1890
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 1942
1 federal appellate · 9 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 v. Cassidy · Wildner v. Ferguson · Mississippi & Rum River Boom Co. v. Prince
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The act is intended to exempt, in general, wages earned by persons standing in the relation of servants or employes, and it is not limited to toilsome and unskilled labor merely, to which the term ‘laborer’ is more strictly and accurately applicable. The title is not carefully worded, but we think the word ‘laborer,’ as used in connection with ‘wages,’ may, in a general sense, be applied to employes other than working men engaged in manual labor, consistently with the provisions of the act. And that being so, the court will so construe it in connection with the language used in the body of the act, and will, if necessary, give it the broader signification in order to uphold the constitutionality of the law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sexton v. Baehr
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.