Giles v. Shell Oil Corp.

How courts have described this case

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

• applicable standard is whether “an employer knew or should have known its employee behaved in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner”
• “[I]t is incumbent upon a party to show that an employer knew or should have known its employee behaved in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner, and that the employer, armed with that actual or constructive knowledge failed to adequately supervise the employee.”
• “[I]t is incumbent upon a party to show that an employer knew or should have known its employee behaved in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner, and that the employer, armed with that actual or constructive knowledge failed to adequately supervise the employee.”
• “[I]t is incumbent upon a party to show that an employer knew or should have known its employee behaved in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner, and that the employer, armed with that actual or constructive knowledge failed to adequately supervise the employee.”
• “[I]t is incumbent upon a party to show that an employer knew or should have known its employee behaved in a dangerous or otherwise incompetent manner, and that the employer, armed with that actual or constructive knowledge failed to adequately supervise the employee.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Brown Ex Rel. Brown v. Argenbright Security, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2001-10-04· cited 97×
• Daisley v. Riggs Bank, N.A.
  District of Columbia· 2005-05-31· cited 96×
• Dormu v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2011-06-07· cited 95×
• District of Columbia v. Tulin
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2010-05-13· cited 94×
• Weinberg v. Johnson
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1986-12-08· cited 93×
• Griffin v. Acacia Life Insurance
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2007-05-24· cited 89×
• Phelan v. City of Mount Rainier
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2002-08-22· cited 77×
• Maniaci v. Georgetown University
  District of Columbia· 2007-09-10· cited 62×
• Acosta Orellana v. CROPLIFE INTERN.
  District of Columbia· 2010-05-13· cited 59×
• Schecter v. Merchants Home Delivery, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2006-02-09· cited 55×
• District of Columbia v. Hampton
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1995-12-04· cited 55×
• Rawlings v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2011-10-28· cited 41×
• Judah v. Reiner
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2000-02-03· cited 37×
• Moorehead v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2000-03-16· cited 36×
• Mitchell v. DCX, Inc.
  District of Columbia· 2003-07-22· cited 36×
• Beyene v. Washington Hilton LLC
  District of Columbia· 2011-09-30· cited 36×
• Bond v. U.S. Department of Justice
  District of Columbia· 2011-12-06· cited 28×
• Levy v. Currier
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1991-02-28· cited 27×
• Simms v. District of Columbia
  District of Columbia· 2010-03-30· cited 27×
• Walter Blair, II v. DC & Thaddeus Modlin, Jr.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 2018-08-02· cited 27×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Shell Oil Co. v. Leftwich
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1972-03-06· cited 123×
• Billingsley v. Clayton
  Supreme Court· 1966-10-10· cited 106×
• Safeway Stores, Inc. v. Kelly
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1982-07-01· cited 52×
• Murphy v. Army Distaff Foundation, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1983-03-11· cited 48×
• Annie W. Dovell v. Arundel Supply Corporation
  D.C. Circuit· 1966-05-06· cited 32×
• LeGrand v. Insurance Company of North America
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1968-05-13· cited 30×
• Adams v. F. W. Woolworth Co.
  New York Supreme Court· 1932-06-13· cited 28×
• Hoover v. Sun Oil Company
  Superior Court of Delaware· 1965-07-20· cited 7×