Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Ray v. Schneider (1988), Shell Chemical Company v. Lamb (1973)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 18 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 Cameron Mill & Elevator Co. v. Anderson · West Texas Utilities Co. v. Renner · 34 Tex. Civ. App. 105 - Camerom Mill and Elevator Co. v. Anderson · 32 Tex. Civ. App. 325 - Southern Oil Co. v. Church · 26 Tex. Civ. App. 148 - Proctor v. San Antonio Street Railway 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The rule imposing liability on the employer is for the protection of third persons, not for the protection of the contractor’s servant, and the latter cannot hold the employer responsible for the contractor’s negligence in blasting in a municipal street, solely upon the theory that the work was a nuisance or was intrinsically dangerous.” Id. at 975 .”
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.