Lyon v. Morphew’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Lee Lewis Construction, Inc. v. Harrison (2002), O'Sullivan v. Shaw (2000)
3 federal appellate · 6 district · 46 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 Kourouvacilis v. General Motors Corp. · Mullins v. Pine Manor College · Poirier v. Town of Plymouth · Rae v. Air-Speed, Inc. · Corsetti v. Stone Co.
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] landowner is 'not obliged to supply a place of maximum safety, but only one which would be safe to a person who exercises such minimum care as the circumstances reasonably indicate.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In general, an employer of an independent contractor is not liable for harm caused to another by the independent contractor's negligence, unless the employer retained some control over the manner in which the work was done.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]bsent a legal duty, there can be no personal liability.”
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.