19 Ariz. App. 111 - Parks v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4 district · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably 172 Ind. App. 207 - Walters v. Kellam & Foley, Mussett, Nicholas & Stevenson, Inc. (1977), 22 Ariz. App. 76 - Allison Steel Manufacturing Co. v. Superior Court (1974)
4 district · 32 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 1 Ariz. App. 395 - Welker v. Kennecott Copper Company · E. L. Jones Construction Co. v. Noland · S.A. Gerrard Co., Inc. v. Fricker · 13 Ariz. App. 133 - Reber Ex Rel. Industrial Commission v. Chandler High School District 202 · 11 Ariz. App. 91 - German v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who entrusts work to an independent contractor, but who retains the control of any part of the work, is subject to liability for physical harm to others for whose safety the employer owes a duty to exercise reasonable care, which is caused by his failure to exercise his control with reasonable care.”
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.