Jay Lines, Inc. v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently March 2001
1 district · 6 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 Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc. · Pacific Employers Ins Co v. Industrial Accident Commission of California · J. Miller Co. v. Mixter · Martin Trucking Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Heilner v. Commonwealth
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Tlhe crucial test [in determining whether an employment relationship exists is]} whether the alleged employer assumes control of the work to be done and the manner in which it is performed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. GKN Co. v. Magness“has the right to control and direct the employee in the performance of the work and in the manner in which the work is to be done”
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.