Thrash v. Credit Acceptance Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 547 So. 2d 870 - West v. Founders Life Assur. Co. of Florida · 538 So. 2d 794 - Bass v. SOUTHTRUST BANK OF BALDWIN CTY. · 683 So. 2d 419 - SYSTEM DYNAMICS INTERN., INC. v. Boykin · Wood v. Shell Oil Co. · 505 So. 2d 1045 - General Finance Corp. 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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“How the parties characterize the relationship is of no consequence; it is the facts of the relationship that control.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. 858 So. 2d 250 - Lee v. YES of Russellville, Inc. · Ipsco Steel (Alabama), Inc., an Alabama Corporation Ipsco Construction, Inc., an Alabama Corporation Kvaerner U.S. Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Blaine Construction Corporation, a Tennessee Corporation. Kvaerner U.S. Inc., Blaine Construction Corporation, a Tennessee Corporation v. Ipsco Construction, Inc., an Alabama Corporation Kvaerner U.S. Inc., a Delaware Corporation Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Massachusetts Corporation Marsh Usa, Inc., a Delaware Corporation F/k/a J & H Marsh & McLennan Inc. Liberty International Canada, a Division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Massachusetts Corporation. Kvaerner U.S. Inc.“The right-of-control test requires that the right be reserved, not that the right be actually exercised.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. 858 So. 2d 250 - Lee v. YES of Russellville, Inc. · Ipsco Steel (Alabama), Inc., an Alabama Corporation Ipsco Construction, Inc., an Alabama Corporation Kvaerner U.S. Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Blaine Construction Corporation, a Tennessee Corporation. Kvaerner U.S. Inc., Blaine Construction Corporation, a Tennessee Corporation v. Ipsco Construction, Inc., an Alabama Corporation Kvaerner U.S. Inc., a Delaware Corporation Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Massachusetts Corporation Marsh Usa, Inc., a Delaware Corporation F/k/a J & H Marsh & McLennan Inc. Liberty International Canada, a Division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Massachusetts Corporation. Kvaerner U.S. Inc.“[a]gency is generally a question of fact to be determined by the trier of fact.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ipsco Steel (Alabama), Inc., an Alabama Corporation Ipsco Construction, Inc., an Alabama Corporation Kvaerner U.S. Inc., a Delaware Corporation v. Blaine Construction Corporation, a Tennessee Corporation. Kvaerner U.S. Inc., Blaine Construction Corporation, a Tennessee Corporation v. Ipsco Construction, Inc., an Alabama Corporation Kvaerner U.S. Inc., a Delaware Corporation Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Massachusetts Corporation Marsh Usa, Inc., a Delaware Corporation F/k/a J & H Marsh & McLennan Inc. Liberty International Canada, a Division of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, a Massachusetts Corporation. Kvaerner U.S. Inc. · 852 So. 2d 730 - Cook's Pest Control, Inc. v. Rebar
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.