Pendergrass v. Lovelace’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Saiz Ex Rel. Estate of Saiz v. Belen School District (1992), Parsons v. Amerada Hess Corp. (1970)
14 federal appellate · 40 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 Chapman Chemical Co. v. Taylor · 23 Cal. App. 2d 680 - Miles v. A. Arena & Co. · S.A. Gerrard Co., Inc. v. Fricker · 136 W. Va. 761 - Law v. Phillips · McKennon v. Jones
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.
“One who owes * * * an absolute and positive duty to the public or an individual cannot escape the responsibility * * * by delegating it to an independent contractor * * * whether [the duty] is imposed by the common law, by statute, or by municipal ordinance * * *.”
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.