57 N.C. App. 275 - Deitz v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably 166 N.C. App. 283 - White v. Consolidated Planning, Inc. (2004), 85 N.C. App. 338 - Dixon v. Stuart (1987)
36 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 Sutton v. Duke · Page v. Sloan · Presnell v. Pell · 46 N.C. App. 350 - Orange County v. Department of Transportation · Hendricks v. Leslie Fay, Inc.
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a recognizable and substantial danger inherent in the work, as distinguished from a danger collaterally created by the independent negligence of the contractor, which latter might take place on a job itself involving no inherent danger.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a general contractor may be subject to liability for an injury done to a plaintiff as a proximate result of the general contractor's negligence in hiring an independent contractor to perform construction work.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“imposes liability on an employer for the negligent torts of independent contractors performing, for the employer, an activity which would result in harmful consequences unless proper precautions are taken.”
2 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.