Knoble v. National Carriers, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding the company “exercised or had the right to exercise as much control over the drivers ... as it desired”
• “[M]ere terminology cannot bind a court or prevent it from assessing the effect of the overall conduct of the parties.”
• “While such regulations may indeed furnish reasons for at least part of the control exercised, they do not alter the fact of its existence.”
• “Mere terminology cannot bind a court or prevent it from assessing the effect of the overall conduct of the parties.”
• “While such regulations may indeed furnish reasons for at least part of the control exercised, they do not alter the fact of its existence.”
• \[T]he relationship of contracting parties depends on all the operative facts; the label which they choose to employ is only one of those . . . facts.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).