Donovan v. Tehco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
642 F.2d 141 · 1981
Citation profile
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Wheeler v. Hurdman (1987), Bonnette v. California Health & Welfare Agency (1983)
33 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 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 Ohio Bureau of Employment Services v. Hodory · Anderson v. Mt. Clemens Pottery Co. · United States v. Silk · Rutherford Food Corp. v. McComb · Walling v. US
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In reviewing the district court’s ultimate findings that the workers at issue were independent contractors, we are not constrained by the “clearly erroneous” standard. Rather, these ultimate findings are treated as legal determinations.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Castillo v. Givens“the individual is or is not, as a matter of economic fact, in business for himself.”
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.