H. E. Wolfe Const. Co. v. Fersner’s Empirical Analysis
58 F.2d 27 · 1932
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2013
16 federal appellate · 3 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 Standard Oil Company v. Edward Anderson · Winters v. United States · Blair v. Oesterlein Machine Co. · Little v. Hackett · Driscoll v. Towle
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the pending case, the arrangement between the parties involved, not merely supervision by the construction company (the contractor) at each end of the haul of the loading and unloading of the trucks, but also general direction over the hauling; and when it is borne in mind that the trucks of the company and those of Gresham (the subcontractor) were used in precisely the same manner, and that both sets of trucks were subject to the same direction and control, it is obvious that the company acquired an authority over the actions of Gresham’s drivers incompatible with the position of independent subcontractor on his part. * * * We think that the District Judge was justified in refusing to direct a verdict for the construction company on this ground.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“between authoritative direction and control, and mere suggestions as to details”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.