151 W. Va. 830 - Chenoweth v. Settle Engineers, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably 159 W. Va. 621 - Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. (1976), 187 W. Va. 292 - Pasquale v. Ohio Power Co. (1992)
7 federal appellate · 33 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 136 W. Va. 761 - Law v. Phillips · Quinones v. Township of Upper Moreland · Beasley v. Bond · 187 F. Supp. 260 - Quinones v. TOWNSHIP OF UPPER MORELAND, ETC., PA. · 107 W. Va. 236 - Roberts v. Axe Tool Co.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general rule is that where one person has contracted with a competent person to do work, not in itself unlawful or intrinsically dangerous in character, and who exercise no supervision or control over the work contracted for, such person is not liable for the negligence of such independent contractor or his servants in the performance of the work.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Every employer shall furnish employment which shall be reasonably safe for the employees therein engaged and shall furnish and use safety devices and safeguards, and shall adopt and use methods and processes reasonably adequate to render employment and the place of employment safe, and shall do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life, health, safety, and welfare of such employees ... Every employer and every owner of a place of employment, place of public assembly, or a public building, now or hereafter constructed, shall so construct, repair and maintain the same as to render it reasonably safe. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to enforce or require any safety precautions.”
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.