Raines v. Gould, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that employee of subcontractor installing electrical system at battery plant being constructed for defendant was not defendant's statutory employee
• \[The record does 8 not indicate the work being performed by Raines . . . was an integral part of [battery manufacturer's] operations without which it cannot function.\
• “Every manufacturer must have a plant, but this fact alone does not make the work of constructing a plant a part of the trade or business of every manufacturer who engages a contractor to construct a plant.”
• wherein this court held manufacturer of batteries was not statutory employer of worker injured while installing electrical system at plant being constructed for manufacturer, noting construction work is ordinarily outside the trade or business of a manufacturer
• “[W]e find it unnecessary to apply either prong of the Shell Oil test. Indeed, that test is only a corollary guide, sometimes useful but not indispensable, in applying the literal language of the statutes to the facts in a particular case.”

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Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Cinnamon v. International Business MacHines Corp.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-09-22· cited 56×
• Glass v. Dow Chemical Co.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1997-02-19· cited 40×
• Stone v. Door-Man Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-11-03· cited 20×
• Keene v. CNA Holdings, LLC
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 2019-02-13· cited 9×
• Revels v. Hoechst Celanese Corp.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1990-04-02· cited 7×
• Glass v. Dow Chemical Co.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1994-07-05· cited 2×
• Rodriguez v. Leesburg Business Park
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2014-02-27

Cites

13 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Bassett Furniture Industries, Inc. v. McReynolds
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1976-04-23· cited 150×
• Packett v. Moretown Creamery Co.
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1917-01-17· cited 41×
• Zehring v. Wickham
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-02-19· cited 30×
• Duplechin v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1972-07-18· cited 29×
• Parker v. Williams and Madjanik, Inc.
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1980-05-20· cited 20×
• Ball v. Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1959-05-11· cited 20×
• Brown v. Ebasco Services, Inc.
  Louisiana Court of Appeal· 1984-12-11· cited 19×
• Szofran v. Century Electric Co.
  Missouri Court of Appeals· 1953-02-17· cited 19×
• Hataway v. Proctor & Gamble Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1965-08-17· cited 15×
• Wilson v. Duke Power Company
  Supreme Court of South Carolina· 1979-09-06· cited 14×
• Hairston v. Re: Leasing, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1985-09-04· cited 13×
• Bigham v. Nassau Recycle Corp.
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1985-04-03· cited 6×
• Vandergrift v. United States
  E.D. Virginia· 1979-11-28· cited 4×