Smith v. Zellerbach’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 569 So. 2d 23 - Davenport v. Amax Nickel, Inc. (1990), 583 So. 2d 114 - Urbeso v. Bryan (1991)
28 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 Hickman Ex Rel. Iles v. Southern Pacific Transport Co. · Amyx v. Henry & Hall · 364 So. 2d 604 - Ewell v. Petro Processors of Louisiana, Inc. · SANDERS'CAMPER VILLAGE, INC. v. Coleman Oldsmobile, Inc. · Succession of Pierson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. There is a valid contract between the parties; 2. The work being done is of an independent nature such that the contractor may employ non-exclusive means in accomplishing it; 3. The contract calls for specific piecework as a unit to be done according to the independent contractor's own methods without being subject to the control and direction of the principal, except as to the result of the services to be rendered; 4. There is a specific price for the overall undertaking; and 5. Specific time or duration is agreed upon and not subject to termination at the will of either side without liability for breach.”
12 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.