Fleck v. ANG Coal Gasification Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that Hawai'i under Makaneole follows the minority view, which holds that §§ 416 and 427 protect employees of independent contractors
• a duty is not created when employer has general right to inspect work progress
• “[W]e adopt the majority view and hold that an employer of an independent contractor is not vicariously liable to the independent contractor’s employees under Sections 416 and 427 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts.”
• “[T]he duty created by [the retained control theory] may arise in two ways: through express contractual provisions retaining the right to control the operative detail of some part of the work, or through the employer’s actual exercise of such retained control at the jobsite.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

36 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Chad S. Gass v. Virgin Islands Telephone Corporation, Raco, Incorporated, and Ann Marie Estes
  Third Circuit· 2002-11-18· cited 74×
• Crocker v. Morales-Santana
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2014-09-29· cited 41×
• McDowell v. Gillie
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2001-05-22· cited 39×
• Thompson v. Jess
  Utah Supreme Court· 1999-03-12· cited 37×
• Gaytan v. Wal-Mart
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2014-09-19· cited 37×
• Rogstad v. Dakota Gasification Co.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2001-03-20· cited 27×
• Stout v. Fisher Industries, Inc.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-12-01· cited 26×
• State v. Wanzek
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-08-25· cited 22×
• Dinger Ex Rel. Dinger v. Strata Corp.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2000-03-21· cited 22×
• Ted Mark Monk v. Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority Quality Electric Supply Company
  Third Circuit· 1995-04-20· cited 21×
• Traudt v. Potomac Electric Power Co.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1997-01-16· cited 21×
• Robinson v. Poured Walls of Iowa, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1996-09-18· cited 20×
• Patterson v. Hutchens
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1995-03-08· cited 18×
• Nelson v. Johnson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-08-25· cited 17×
• Pechtl v. Conoco, Inc.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1997-08-11· cited 16×
• Monk v. Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority
  Third Circuit· 1994-12-05· cited 15×
• Grewal v. North Dakota Ass'n of Counties & Northwest Contracting, Inc.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2003-10-23· cited 14×
• Kristianson v. Flying J Oil & Gas, Inc.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-09-03· cited 12×
• Johansen v. Anderson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-11-18· cited 11×
• Uren v. Dakota Dust-Tex, Inc.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 2002-05-14· cited 10×

Cites

44 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Privette v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1993-07-19· cited 264×
• Rowley v. Mayor of Baltimore
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1986-03-05· cited 107×
• GLARRATANO v. Weitz Company
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 1967-01-10· cited 96×
• Conover v. Northern States Power Co.
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1981-12-17· cited 93×
• Tauscher v. Puget Sound Power & Light Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1981-10-15· cited 89×
• Zueck v. Oppenheimer Gateway Properties, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1991-06-11· cited 88×
• Jones v. Chevron U.S.A., Inc.
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1986-05-01· cited 82×
• King v. Shelby Rural Electric Cooperative Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1973-11-09· cited 66×
• Ray v. Schneider
  Connecticut Appellate Court· 1988-10-04· cited 60×
• Sloan v. Atlantic Richfield Company
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-07-08· cited 59×
• Wagner v. Continental Casualty Co.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1988-04-14· cited 54×
• Anderson v. Nashua Corp.
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1994-07-22· cited 52×
• Jackson v. Petit Jean Electric Co-Op
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-09-29· cited 52×
• Vannoy v. City of Warren
  Michigan Court of Appeals· 1968-12-23· cited 51×
• Robert Olson and Jan Olson v. Pennzoil Company, Pennzoil Company, Defendant/third-Party v. Sun Well Service, Inc., Third-Party
  Third Circuit· 1991-10-04· cited 47×
• Lindler v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-08-23· cited 47×
• Peone v. Regulus Stud Mills, Inc.
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1987-10-02· cited 44×
• Morris v. City of Soldotna
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-07-27· cited 42×
• Horejsi Ex Rel. Anton v. Anderson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-07-27· cited 40×
• Vertentes v. Barletta Co.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1984-06-11· cited 40×