Thompson v. Twiss’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Glodenis v. American Brass Co. (1934), Latimer v. Administrator (1990)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 69 state decisions — followed in 17 states
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 Norwalk Gaslight Co. v. Borough of Norwalk · Alexander v. R. A. Sherman's Sons Co. · Gaynor's Case · State ex rel. City of Northfield v. District Court of Rice County · Sabella v. Brazileiro
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The decisive test is who has the right to direct what shall be done and when and how it shall be done? Who has the right of general control?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the occasional or incidental employment, the employment which comes without regularity.”
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.