708 F. Supp. 436 - Farren v. General Motors Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 2 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 Gregory Lumber Co. v. United States · Federal Energy Regulatory Commission v. Martin Exploration Management Co. · Federal Energy Administration v. Algonquin SNG, Inc. · Robert C. Hahn v. Francis W. Sargent · Midlantic National Bank v. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there are instances of hazardous employment where an independent contractor is engaged to do a particular task which presents inherent risk to the employees of that contractor. To some extent the [law] was developed to reflect an allocation of risk as between the employer (property owner) and the employee (independent contractor's employee) who accepts such employment. We do not here seek to preclude the continuation of such a proper allocation of risk between the parties nor to make the property owner an insurer against all loss.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“This exception extends to situations where the independent contractor and the landowner are equally knowledgeable of the dangerous conditions, or where the defective conditions are created by the work of the independent contractor or his employees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“was intended by the parties to cover injuries sustained by an employee ... returning to his work site from a lunch break”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.