Seals v. Zollo’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2023 · most notably 48 Cal. 3d 341 - S. G. Borello & Sons, Inc. v. Department of Industrial Relations (1989), TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS IN OPTOMETRY v. Carp (1961)
40 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 2 Smith & H. 491 - King v. Buckeye Cotton Oil Co. · Jack and Jill, Inc. v. Tone · Elder v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. · Schomp v. Fuller Brush Co. · Creameries of America, Inc. v. Industrial 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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Employee' shall include every person, including a minor, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed, the president, any vice-president, secretary, treasurer, or other executive officer of a corporate employer without regard to the nature of the duties of such corporate officials, in the service of an employer, as employer is defined in paragraph (a) above, under any contract of hire, apprenticeship, written or implied. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““In determining whether or not claimant in workmen’s compensation proceeding was an employee or independent contractor, the Supreme Court has duty to give Workmen’s Compensation Act a liberal construction in favor of fact that claimant is an employee, rather than a strict construction. 205 Tenn. at 470 , 327 S.W.2d at 44 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.