Williams v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2006
12 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 Tobler v. Pioneer Mining & Mfg. Co. · Finnell v. Pitts · Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. v. Wilkes · Alabama Power Co. v. Pierre · Dixie Stage Lines v. Anderson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But a contractor is not liable to a member of the public for the negligence of a subcontractor, except (1) that the contractor and his original contractee and his subcontractor are each liable to the public for injuries resulting directly and necessarily from the acts authorized to be done; but this does not extend to injuries which are not a necessary result of the work, but are caused by the negligent act of the subcontractor in doing the work, for then the subcontractor alone is responsible. Another exception to the general rule above stated is (2) where the law imposes on the original contractor a duty to keep the subject of the work in a safe condition (such as a city in respect to streets), the duty continues throughout its performance. ...” ( 255 Ala. at 327 , 51 So.2d at 5 )”
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.