Koch Refining Co. v. Chapa

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the independent contractor’s employee did not present any evidence that the premises owner instructed the employee in lifting a pipe, which led to the employee’s injury
• holding that instructions to perform work in a safe manner and the authority to stop dangerous conduct was no evidence of actual control
• holding that instructions to perform work in a safe manner and the authority to stop dangerous conduct was no evidence of actual control
• holding that presence of premises owner’s safety representative and possibility that safety employee might have intervened to stop dangerous work not sufficient to create duty
• holding that the independent contractor’s employee did not present any evidence that the premises owner instructed the employee in lifting a pipe, which led to the employee’s injury
• holding that the independent contractor’s employee did not present any evidence that the premises owner instructed the employee in lifting a pipe, which led to the employee’s injury

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Lee Lewis Construction, Inc. v. Harrison
  Texas Supreme Court· 2002-04-15· cited 754×
• D. Houston, Inc. v. Love
  Texas Supreme Court· 2002-06-27· cited 396×
• Shell Oil Co. v. Khan
  Texas Supreme Court· 2004-06-11· cited 218×
• Fifth Club, Inc. v. Ramirez
  Texas Supreme Court· 2006-06-30· cited 211×
• General Electric Co. v. Moritz
  Texas Supreme Court· 2008-06-13· cited 178×
• Francis Barker, Jr. v. Hercules Offshore, Inc., et
  Fifth Circuit· 2013-02-01· cited 153×
• Wingfoot Enterprises v. Alvarado
  Texas Supreme Court· 2003-07-03· cited 147×
• Pedro Gonzalez & Maria Gomez v. Vatr Construction LLC & All American Roofing & Construction
  Tex. App. Ct., 5th Dist. (Dallas)· 2013-12-12· cited 68×
• Ellwood Texas Forge Corp. v. Jones
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2007-01-09· cited 62×
• Risner v. McDonald's Corp.
  Tex. App. Ct., 9th Dist. (Beaumont)· 2000-06-08· cited 58×
• McClure v. Denham
  Court of Appeals of Texas· 2005-03-31· cited 52×
• Wallace v. Simpson Pasadena Paper Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2004-11-24· cited 51×
• Lockett v. HB Zachry Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 1st Dist. (Houston)· 2009-02-12· cited 51×
• Chesapeake Operating, Inc. v. Nabors Drilling USA, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2002-11-21· cited 49×
• Gonzalez v. Ramirez
  Texas Supreme Court· 2015-05-08· cited 49×
• David Duncan v. American Greetings Corporation
  Eighth Circuit· 2014-06-12· cited 48×
• R.R. Street & Co. v. Pilgrim Enterprises, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 2005-06-10· cited 46×
• Perez v. Embree Construction Group, Inc.
  Tex. App. Ct., 3rd Dist. (Austin)· 2007-06-27· cited 45×
• City of Houston v. Harris
  Tex. App. Ct., 14th Dist. (Houston)· 2006-04-13· cited 43×
• Koepke v. Martinez
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 2002-09-26· cited 34×

Cites

7 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Redinger v. Living, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-05-08· cited 503×
• Clayton W. Williams, Jr., Inc. v. Olivo
  Texas Supreme Court· 1997-10-02· cited 376×
• Elliott-Williams Co., Inc. v. Diaz
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-12-16· cited 351×
• Hoechst Celanese Corp. v. Mendez
  Texas Supreme Court· 1998-02-13· cited 175×
• Coastal Marine Service of Texas, Inc. v. Lawrence
  Texas Supreme Court· 1999-04-29· cited 174×
• Henry Tovar v. Amarillo Oil Co.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1985-06-26· cited 55×
• Chapa v. Koch Refining Co.
  Tex. App. Ct., 13th Dist.· 1999-01-28· cited 15×