Fisher v. Townsends, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that the determination of whether a person is a servant or an independent contractor is ordinarily made by the factfinder
• “Because all employers are masters and all employees are servants, the terms employer/employee are often used interchangeably to denote a master/servant relationship.”
• “Because all employers are [principals] and all employees are [agents], the terms employer/employee are often used interchangeably to denote a [principal/agent] relationship.”
• “It is the actions taken by the parties, not the terms used in the contract, that are dispositive in determining whether they were principal and agent respectively.”
• discussing the difference between agent-independent contractors and non-agent independent contractors

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

42 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Vichi v. Koninklijke Philips Electronics
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2014-02-18· cited 96×
• Fasciana v. Electronic Data Systems Corp.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2003-02-27· cited 73×
• Hecksher v. Fairwinds Baptist Church, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 2015-05-21· cited 49×
• Kuhn Construction Co. v. Ocean & Coastal Consultants, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 2012-02-14· cited 31×
• Fasciana v. Electronic Data Systems Corp.
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2003-07-01· cited 26×
• Kuhn Construction Co. v. Ocean & Coastal Consultants, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 2010-07-15· cited 15×
• Zirkle v. Winkler
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 2003-05-22· cited 14×
• BankUnited Financial Corp. v. Federal Deposit Insurance (In Re BankUnited Financial Corp.)
  S.D. Florida· 2011-11-23· cited 14×
• Amgen Inc. v. Hospira, Inc.
  D. Delaware· 2018-08-27· cited 14×
• Eric M. Berman, P.C. v. City of New York
  E.D. New York· 2012-09-29· cited 12×
• Kent County, State of Md. v. Shepherd
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1998-07-16· cited 7×
• BCI Pancake House, Inc. v. Morris (In Re BCI Pancake House, Inc.)
  D. Delaware· 2001-11-27· cited 3×
• Dweck v. Nasser
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 2008-07-02· cited 3×
• ING Bank v. American Reporting Co.
  D. Delaware· 2012-02-16· cited 2×
• Buck v. Nanticoke Memorial Hospital Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2015-05-19
• Reese v. Triple D. Truss, LLC
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2016-11-28
• Newborn v. Christiana Psychiatric Services, P.A.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-01-25
• Duncan v. STTCPL, LLC
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2017-02-28
• Randazzo v. Cochran
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-02-22
• Sadler v. Johnson
  Superior Court of Delaware· 2018-07-17

Cites

26 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• American Telephone And Telegraph Company v. Winback And Conserve Program, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1994-12-09· cited 509×
• Sears Mortgage Corp. v. Rose
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1993-07-29· cited 187×
• Bradbury v. Phillips Petroleum Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 1987-04-07· cited 81×
• Billops v. Magness Construction Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1978-07-21· cited 52×
• Mechell v. Palmer
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1975-07-29· cited 42×
• Price v. All American Engineering Company
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1974-04-23· cited 40×
• Schagrin v. Wilmington Medical Center, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1973-03-08· cited 40×
• Fields v. Synthetic Ropes, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1965-11-30· cited 32×
• Singleton Ex Rel. Singleton v. International Dairy Queen, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1975-01-08· cited 28×
• Sussex County, Del. v. Morris
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1992-06-26· cited 27×
• Draper v. Olivere Paving & Construction Co.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1962-05-15· cited 25×
• Stoll v. Noel
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1997-04-10· cited 24×
• Wilson v. Joma, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1988-02-05· cited 23×
• Lester C. Newton Trucking Company v. Neal
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1964-10-20· cited 22×
• Gooden & Clark v. Mitchell
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1941-04-24· cited 22×
• Cheney v. Hailey
  Colorado Court of Appeals· 1984-02-23· cited 18×
• Seeney v. Dover Country Club Apartments, Inc.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1974-04-03· cited 16×
• Morris v. Blake
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1988-07-01· cited 14×
• O'CONNOR v. Diamond State Telephone Co.
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1985-09-12· cited 11×
• White v. Gulf Oil Corp.
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1979-08-31· cited 11×