Scott v. Murphy Corporation’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Saiz Ex Rel. Estate of Saiz v. Belen School District (1992), State v. Beachum (1972)
4 federal appellate · 46 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 Burruss v. B. M. C. Logging Co. · Shipman v. MacCo Corporation · Pendergrass v. Lovelace · Southern California Petroleum Corp. v. Royal Indemnity Co. · Campbell v. Smith
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The principal test is whether the employer has the right to control the manner in which the details of the work are to be accomplished, not the exercise of any control at all. But neither mere suggestions by the employer nor the `directing control essential to co-ordinate the several parts of a larger undertaking' affect the relationship. Campbell v. Smith, 68 N.M. 373, 362 P.2d 523.”
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.