9 Ill. App. 2d 169 - Taber v. Defenbaugh’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 1984
6 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 Meredosia Levee & Drainage District v. Industrial Commission · Immaculate Conception Church v. Industrial Commission · Nelson Bros. v. Industrial Commission
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Statute requires compliance by an owner, contractor, sub-con tractor, foreman or other person having charge of the building project. It is not disputed that defendant was the owner of the premises upon which the house was being constructed, nor that decedent was working on a scaffold at the time he fell. However, before the defendant can be held liable, proof must be made as to all essential elements. One of these elements is that it be shown that the defendant was actually in charge of construction of the building.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““When all of the circumstances shown are considered together there would appear to be no basis'therein for the conclusion that the defendant retained the right to control the manner in which the decedent did the'work of building defendant’s house. The evidence upon which plaintiff relies as proof of an employer and employee relationship, taken in the aspect most favorable to her, fails to even show an actual interference by the defendant with decedent’s control or supervision of the construction.””
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.