Edwards v. Price’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Colorado Auto & Truck Wreckers Ass'n v. Department of Revenue (1980), Stewart v. United States (1982)
4 federal appellate · 35 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 Frohlick Crane Service, Inc. v. MacK · O'QUINN v. Walt Disney Productions, Inc. · Hamm v. Thompson · O'Herron v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · Stevenson v. Industrial Commission
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Any person, company, or corporation operating or engaged in or conducting any business by leasing or contracting out any part or all of the work thereof to any lessee, sublessee, contractor, or subcontractor, irrespective of the number of employees engaged in such work, shall be construed to be an employer as defined in articles 40 to 54 of this title and shall be liable as provided in said articles to pay compensation for injury or death resulting therefrom to said lessees, sub-lessees, contractors, and subcontractors and their employees or employees’ dependents. The employer, before commencing said work, shall insure and keep insured his liability as provided in said articles, and such lessee, sublessee, contractor, or subcontractor, as well as any employee thereof, shall be deemed employees as defined in said articles.... (2) If said lessee, sublessee, contractor, or subcontractor is himself an employer in the doing of such work and, before commencing such work, insures and keeps insured his liability for compensation as provided in articles 40 to 54 of this title, neither said lessee, sublessee, contractor, or subcontractor, its employees, or its insurer shall have any right of contribution or action of any kind, including actions under section 8-52-108, against the person, company, or corporation operating or engaged in or conducting any business by leasing or contracting out any part or all of the work thereof, or against its employees, servants, or agents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The public policy upon which the Workmen’s Compensation Act is founded derives from the need to provide monetary relief for workmen injured in the course of their employment, regardless of the negligence of the employer or the lack of negligence on the part of the employee.... The underlying concept is one of “no fault.” It is further the policy of Colorado and the great majority of states to make the more financially solvent general contractor ultimately responsible for workmen’s compensation benefits arising out of injuries to employees of all subcontractors .... The policy interests are embodied in section 8-48-101, C.R.S. 1973 and are a legitimate state objective. In return for this ultimate. statutory liability, the general contractor is relieved of any liability for “contribution or action of any kind, including actions under section 8-52-108” Section 8-48-101(2), C.R.S. 1973.... It is the general contractor to whom the employees of all subcontractors may look for workmen’s compensation if their immediate employer is uninsured or financially irresponsible.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Any person, company, or corporation operating or engaged in or conducting any business by leasing or contracting out any part or all of the work thereof . . . shall be construed to be an employer as defined in articles 40 to 54 of this title and shall be liable as provided in said articles.... The employer, before commencing said work shall insure and keep insured his liability as provided in said articles, and such lessee, sublessee, contractor or subcontractor, as well as any employee thereof, shall be deemed employees as defined in said articles.... (2) If said ... contractor, or subcontractor ... before commencing such work insures and keeps insured his liability . .. neither said ... contractor, or subcontractor, its employees, or its insurer shall have any right of contribution or action of any kind ... against the person, company or corporation operating or engaged in or conducting any business by leasing or contracting out any part or all of the work thereof, or against its employees, servants or agents. 18”
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.