Day v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2013 · most notably Vanderburgh County Board of Commissioners v. Rittenhouse (1991), Felsher v. University of Evansville (2001)
29 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
Applies 7 U.S.C. § 202
Relies on Farmers Reservoir & Irrigation Co. v. McComb · Johnson County Rural Electric Membership Corp. v. Burnell · Gaboury v. Ireland Road Grace Brethren, Inc. · Maroon v. State, Department of Mental Health · Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. v. Terre Haute Industries, Inc.
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Functions which are necessary to the total economic process of supplying an agricultural product become, in the process of economic development and specialization, separate and independent productive functions operated in conjunction with the agricultural function but no longer a part of it. Thus, the question as to whether a particular type of activity is agricultural is not determined by the necessity of the activity to agriculture nor by the physical similarity to that done by farmers in other situations. The question is whether the activity in the particular, case is carried on as part of the agricultural function or is separately organized as an independent productive activity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“an injured employee of a wheat[-]threshing business was not an agricultural employee, but an industrial employee, eligible for workers’ compensation benefits. The [Boyer ] court found wheat threshing to be “a business or industrial pursuit in and of itself, entirely separate and independent of farming [even though wheat threshing has] to do with getting the farm product reading for consumption.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because the trial court entered special findings of fact and conclusions of law, a showing of prima facie error requires a showing that the trial court's findings are clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Cohoon v. Cohoon
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.