Porter v. Pathfinder Services, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently January 2012
1 federal appellate · 4 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 E.I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Shell Oil Co. · Gattis v. State · Mergenthaler v. Asbestos Corp. of America · Pawtucket Mutual Insurance v. Martin · Lester C. Newton Trucking Company v. Neal
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The existence of an employer-employee relationship is an issue of law.”); Barnard v. State, 642 A.2d 808, 813 (Del.Super.Ct. 1992)(”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Higgins v. Walls“[In determining whether an employer-employee relationship exists,] [iJhe greatest weight is given to the issue of control.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. GKN Co. v. Magness
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.