Wessell v. Barrett’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1968
18 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 Press Publishing Co. v. Industrial Accident Commission · Umsted v. Scofield Engineering Construction Co. · Employers' L. A. Corp. v. Indus. Acc. Com. · Famous Players Lasky Corp. v. Industrial Accident Commission · Entremont v. Whitsell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general principles relating to liability in cases of general and special employment are stated in Campbell on Workmen’s Compensation, volume 1, section 457, where it is said: ‘The requisites for imposing liability upon both general and special employer are: (1) a loaned employee situation, in which an employee of one is sent to perform labor for another; (2) a common or joint participation in the work and benefit to each from its rendition; (3) some power, not necessarily complete, of direction and control over details in each.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““If any employer fails to secure the payment of compensation, any injured employee or his dependents may proceed against such employer by filing an application for compensation with the commission, and, in addition, may bring an action at law against such employer for damages, as if this division did not apply. ’ ’”
1 later decision 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.