Murray v. Wasatch Grading Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2007
15 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 · Linstead v. Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. · Charles v. . Barrett · Employers' L. A. Corp. v. Indus. Acc. Com. · Famous Players Lasky Corp. v. Industrial Accident Commission
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) The selection and employment of the servant; (2) the payment of the servant’s wages; (3) the power to discharge the servant; (4) the power to control the servant’s actions; and (5) the person whose work is being done by the servant.””
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.