Morin v. Brassington

How courts have described this case

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

• finding independent-contractor status where worker could “open and close” on his own schedule and conduct “day-to-day business … in the manner [he] saw fit”
• applying the Workers’ Compensation Act and related case law to the WPCL
• “[A]n appellate court, will not invade the credibility-determining powers of the fact-finder merely because the evidence was conflicting and the fact-finder could have decided the case either way.”
• describing the right to control as “[p]aramount”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

19 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Harstad v. Whiteman
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky· 2011-03-04· cited 42×
• Bensinger v. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-08-19· cited 41×
• Hirsch v. EPL Technologies, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-10-16· cited 40×
• Darryl Williams v. Jani King of Philadelphia Inc
  Third Circuit· 2016-09-21· cited 37×
• Bailets, R. v. Pa. Turnpike Commission, Aplt.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2018-03-27· cited 37×
• Ely, M. v. Susquehanna Aquacultures, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-11-25· cited 29×
• Brown v. Trinidad
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-03-09· cited 29×
• United Environmental Group, Inc. v. GKK McKnight, LP
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-12-15· cited 26×
• In re Fedex Ground Package System, Inc.
  N.D. Indiana· 2008-03-25· cited 16×
• Commonwealth v. Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-08-31· cited 15×
• Imperial Excavating & Paving, LLC v. Rizzetto Construction Management, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2007-10-23· cited 12×
• S. Chin v. New Flyer of America, Inc. and SEPTA
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-08-24· cited 9×
• In re Fedex Ground Package System, Inc., Employment Practices Litigation
  N.D. Indiana· 2012-04-24· cited 6×
• Accurso v. Infra-Red Services, Inc.
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2015-08-10· cited 3×
• Newton v. M&B Lumber Inc.
  Blair County Court of Common Pleas· 2005-08-18· cited 1×
• A.Y. v. Janssen Pharmaceuticals Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-11-26
• Righter v. Walter
  Carbon County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-03-12
• Kephart Trucking Co. v. Jackson Fiorentino LLC
  Monroe County Court of Common Pleas· 2010-04-09
• Marsh's Construction LLC v. Varish Construction Inc.
  Adams County Court of Common Pleas· 2009-12-09

Cites

15 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Kiser v. Schulte
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-13· cited 187×
• Pittsburgh Construction Co. v. Griffith
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-10-06· cited 174×
• Connor v. Allegheny General Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-04-27· cited 128×
• Spang & Co. v. United States Steel Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-12· cited 108×
• Soderberg v. Weisel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-01-07· cited 62×
• J.W.S. Delavau, Inc. v. Eastern America Transport & Warehousing, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-10-30· cited 57×
• Lanning v. West
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-07-09· cited 46×
• Mahan v. Am-Gard, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-12-24· cited 44×
• Foster v. Peat Marwick Main & Co.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-02-21· cited 25×
• Lynch v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-02-02· cited 24×
• Aerospace Finance Leasing, Inc. v. New Hampshire Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-05-30· cited 22×
• AUSTIN v. Harnish
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-03· cited 18×
• Watson v. American Home Assurance Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-11-20· cited 15×
• Frank Burns, Inc. v. InterDigital Communications Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-12-05· cited 8×
• Sarver Towing v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-08-05· cited 6×