57 Or. App. 366 - Soderback v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “An independent contractor, as distinguished from a mere employee, is one who, carrying on an independent business, contracts to do a piece of work according to his own methods, and without being subject to the control of his employer as to the means by which the result is to be accomplished, but only as to the result of the work.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Powell v. Tanner

2. “That Townsend may have represented himself as 'working for' Quasar did not present any evidence to dispute Quasar's evidence on its lack of any right to control the means whereby Townsend accomplished his mission for Quasar.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Powell v. Tanner