Sutherland v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2018
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 16 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 Peterson v. Balach · Nepstad v. Lambert · Conover v. Northern States Power Co. · Peterson v. WT Rawleigh Company · Thill v. Modern Erecting Company
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As a preliminary matter, we note that when applying the Restatement sections that impose liability on companies hiring independent contractors, we have held that `others' does not include the employees of an independent contractor. This limitation also applies to § 414.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“hald] reason to expect that [Hale would] encounter the known or obvious danger because to a reasonable man in his position the advantages of doing so would outweigh the apparent risk.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. Beckstead“had no reason to anticipate that [the worker] would proceed to encounter the danger of the live [wires] without taking the necessary safety precautions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hale v. Beckstead
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.