Goolsby v. Kenney’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2011
8 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 Roosth & Genecov Production Co. v. White · Kampmann v. Rothwell · Cameron Mill & Elevator Co. v. Anderson · Denison Light & Power Co. v. Patton · Loyd v. Herrington
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his rule is subject to an important exception where the work is inherently dangerous, however skillfully done. Cameron Mill & Elevator Co. v. Anderson, supra. ... No recovery may be allowed for an injury resulting from an act or fault purely collateral to the work and which arises entirely from the wrongful act of the independent contractor or his employees. Loyd v. Herrington, supra, p. 1005; Brownsville Navigation Dist. v. Valley Ice & Fuel Co., 313 S.W.2d 104 (Tex.Civ.App.-San Antonio 1958, no writ). The burden is on the plaintiff to show an exception to the general rule exempting the owner or employer from liability. Wilson v. Crutcher, 176 S.W. 625, 628 (Tex.Civ.App.-Texarkana 1915, writ ref'd); Harris v. Farmers’ & Merchants’ State Bank, 239 S.W. 1027, 1029 (Tex.Civ.App.-El Paso 1922, no writ).”
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.