Wilkins v. Pmb Systems Engineering Inc’s Empirical Analysis
741 F.2d 795 · 1984
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably McDaniel v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. (1993), Bass v. Phoenix Seadrill/78, Ltd. (1985)
19 federal appellate · 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 Garrett v. Co · Garrett v. Moore-McCormack Co. · Leger v. Drilling Well Control, Inc. · Mid-South Towing Co. v. Har-Win, Inc. · Booth v. Mary Carter Paint 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An exception to this general rule occurs 'where the principal [ ], despite the independent contractor arrangement, actually retained some degree of control over the manner or methods by which the contractor [ ] does his work.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a principal who hires independent contractors over which he exercises no operational control has no duty to discover and remedy hazards created by its independent contractors.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a release of the plaintiff's cause of action in return for a settlement payment, along with a provision providing that the settling defendant would be reimbursed to some specified degree from any recovery the plaintiff received in a suit against another non-settling defendant.”
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.