Gordon v. Matson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Loudermill v. Dow Chemical Co. (1988), Titan Oil & Gas, Inc. v. Shipley (1975)
11 federal appellate · 34 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 Schwartz v. Merola Bros. Construction Corp. · Rosenberg v. Schwartz · Waterway Terminals Co. v. P. S. Lord Mechanical Contractors · Wirges v. Hawkins · Delaney v. Philhern Realty Holding 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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a duty to exercise ordinary care and to warn in the event there are any unusually hazardous conditions existing which might affect the welfare of the employees. The recognized exception occurs if the prime contractor [or owner] has undertaken to perform certain duties or activities and negligently fails to perform them thereafter or performs them in a negligent manner. Aluminum Ore Co. v. George, 208 Ark. 419 , 186 S.W.2d 656 [(1945)].”
4 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.