Read v. Scott Fetzer Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Torrington Co. v. Stutzman (2001), City of Fort Worth v. Zimlich (2000)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 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.
Appellate journey
reviewedthe decision below (from Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin))
Relationships
Relies on Nixon v. Mr. Property Management Co. · Smith v. Allwright · Transportation Insurance Co. v. Moriel · Doe v. Boys Clubs of Greater Dallas, Inc. · Greater Houston Transportation Co. v. Phillips
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“One who entrusts work to an independent contractor, but who retains control of any part of the work, is subject to liability for physical harm to others for whose safety the employer owes a duty to exercise reasonable care, which is caused by his failure to exercise his control with reasonable care.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A person of ordinary intelligence should anticipate that an unsuitable dealer [who had previously engaged in sexual misconduct] would pose a risk of harm”
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.