Kasowitz v. Mutual Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 district · 116 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 118 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Hammer v. Lumberman's Mutual Casualty Co. (1990), United Oil Co. v. Urban Redevelopment Commission (1969)
2 district · 116 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 Rathkopf v. Pearson · Palumbo v. George A. Fuller Co. · Pluhowsky v. City of New Haven · Fox v. Fafnir Bearing Co. · Gigliotti v. United Illuminating 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 118 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When any principal employer procures any work to be done wholly or in part for him by a contractor, or through him by a subcontractor, and the work so procured to be done is a part or process in the trade or business of such principal employer, and is performed in, on or about premises under his control, such principal employer shall be liable to pay all compensation under this chapter to the same extent as if the work were done without the intervention of such contractor or subcontractor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`is to protect employees of minor contractors against the possible irresponsibility of their immediate employers, by making the principal employer who has general control of the business in hand liable as if he had directly employed all who work upon any part of the business which he has undertaken to carry on.' Bello v. Notkins, 101 Conn. 34 , 38 , 124 A. 831 [1924].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`all those operations which enter directly into the successful performance of the commercial function of the principal employer. If the work is of such a character that it ordinarily or appropriately would be performed by the principal employer's own employees on the prosecution of his business, it is a part or process in his business.'”
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.