Engler v. Aldridge’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1982
19 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 De Vore v. State Highway Commission · Shanks v. Pearson · Marts v. Freeman · Murphy v. Fairmount Township
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been repeatedly held that a contractor employed by a municipality to make a public improvement as authorized by statute and who performs the work with proper care and skill is not liable for damages resulting to abutting property owners. 43 C.J. 1111, 44 C.J. 451, and see the annotation on right of contractor with public body to immunity which latter enjoys from liability for damages, 69 A.L.R. 489 .” 75 P.2d at 293 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The general rule is well established that an independent contractor is not liable for injuries to a third person, occurring after the contractor has completed the work and turned it over to the owner or employer and the same has been accepted by him, though the injury results from the contractor’s failure to properly carry out his contract.””
1 later decision 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.