Knight v. United Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance’s Empirical Analysis
950 F.2d 377 · 1991
Citation profile
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably Marquis v. City of Spokane (1996), Lisa Worth v. Robert H. Tyer (2001)
30 federal appellate · 4 district · 3 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 Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc. · Spirides v. Reinhardt · Daniels v. Essex Group, Inc. · Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Zippo Manufacturing Co. · Donovan 84-5217 84-5245 v. Dialamerica Marketing Inc 84-5245 84-5217
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the extent of the employer’s control and supervision over the worker, including directions on scheduling and performance of work, (2) the kind of occupation and nature of skill required, including whether skills are obtained in the workplace, (3) responsibility for the costs of operation, such as equipment, supplies, fees, licenses, workplace, and maintenance of operations, (4) method and form of payment and benefits, and (5) length of job commitment and/or expectations.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he employer's right to control is the most important”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“look to the 'economic realities' of the relationship and the degree of control the employer exercises.”
3 later decisions 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.