Welch v. McDougal’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Lee Lewis Construction, Inc. v. Harrison (2002), Clayton W. Williams, Jr., Inc. v. Olivo (1997)
30 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 651 (§ 2 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970)
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · City of Houston v. Clear Creek Basin Authority · Lear Siegler, Inc. v. Perez · El Chico Corp. v. Poole · North East Independent School District v. Aldridge
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[w]e do not believe that a general contractor or an employer is required to stand idly by while another is injured or killed in order to avoid liability. Nor do we believe that the liability rules contemplate putting those who employ independent contractors in that position.'”
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.