209 W. Va. 288 - Robertson v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 148 W. Va. 160 - Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Federal Insurance Co. of New York · 192 W. Va. 189 - Painter v. Peavy · 159 W. Va. 621 - Sanders v. Georgia-Pacific Corp. · 187 W. Va. 292 - Pasquale v. Ohio Power Co. · 206 W. Va. 333 - Shaffer v. Acme Limestone Co., Inc.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the employing party may be liable for a worker's injury even if the employing party does not exercise control sufficient to convert the relationship into an employment or agency relationship but this is true only if the risk involved cannot be eliminated or significantly reduced by taking proper precautions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to produce, instead of simply asking him to produce, a copy of his license or insurance policy”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“could have been significantly eliminated or reduced by using safety ropes or safety equipment.”
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.