105 N.C. App. 509 - Cook v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently July 2025 · most notably 128 N.C. App. 402 - Simmons v. North Carolina Department of Transportation (1998), 166 N.C. App. 333 - Coastal Plains Utilities, Inc. v. New Hanover County (2004)
24 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 In Re the Appeal From the Civil Penalty · Woodson v. Rowland · Hayes v. . Elon College · Youngblood v. N. State Ford Truck Sales · 226 N.J. Super. 110 - Cassano v. Aschoff
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An owner, who wants to get work done without becoming an employer, is entitled to as much control of the details of the work as is necessary to ensure that he gets the end result from the contractor that he bargained for. In other words, there may be a control of the quality or description of the work itself, as distinguished from control of the-person doing it, without going beyond the independent contractor relation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Dunleavy, 114 N.C.App. at 202 , 442 S.E.2d at 56 . If the activity is inherently dangerous and the [party who hired the independent contractor] knows or should know of the circumstances creating the danger, then [it] has [a] nondelegable duty to the independent contractor's employees.... Cook v. Morrison, 105 N.C.App. 509, 515-16 , 413 S.E.2d 922, 926 (1992) (emphasis added). In advancing the contention that it lacked either actual or constructive knowledge of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Unless the activity undertaken is inherently dangerous, an owner or occupier of land who hires an independent contractor is not required to provide employees of the independent contractor a safe place to work nor is he required to take proper safeguards against dangers which may be incident to the work undertaken by the independent contractor.”
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.