Cafferkey v. Turner Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 114 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Whitelock v. Gilbane Building Co. (1993), Bond v. Howard Corp. (1995)
3 federal appellate · 114 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 Hirschbach v. Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. · Briere v. Lathrop Co. · 17 Ohio App. 3d 19 - Walker v. Mid-States Terminal, Inc. · Evans v. Whirlpool Corp. · 605 F. Supp. 641 - Foraker v. Cyclops Corp.
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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] general contractor who has not actively participated in the subcontractor's work, does not, merely by virtue of its supervisory capacity, owe a duty of care to employees of the subcontractor who are injured while engaged in inherently dangerous work.”
17 later decisions quote this exact passage“One who engages the services of an independent contractor, and who actually participates in the job operation performed by such contractor and thereby fails to eliminate a hazard which he, in the exercise of ordinary care, could have eliminated, can be held responsible for the injury or death of an employee of the independent contractor.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“directed the activity which resulted in the injury and/or gave or denied permission for the critical acts that led to the employee's injury, rather than merely exercising a general supervisory role over the project.”
11 later decisions 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.