Wagner v. Continental Casualty Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that generally, contractors are not liable in tort for the injuries to employees of a subcontractor
• holding that generally, contractors are not liable in tort for the injuries to employees of a subcontractor
• stating that examples of abnormally dangerous activities \would include transporting nuclear waste or working with toxic gases\
• detailing reasons for not adopting sections 413, 416, and 427 in favor of employees of independent contractors
• defining an extrahazardous activity as \one in which the risk of harm remains unreasonably high no matter how carefully it is undertaken\
• failing to take reasonable steps to protect a subcontractor's employee is not actionable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Privette v. Superior Court
  California Supreme Court· 1993-07-19· cited 264×
• Pasquale v. Ohio Power Co.
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1992-05-15· cited 51×
• Fleck v. ANG Coal Gasification Co.
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1994-10-03· cited 50×
• Donald R. Wild and Diana H. Wild v. Subscription Plus, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2002-05-31· cited 45×
• Thompson v. Jess
  Utah Supreme Court· 1999-03-12· cited 37×
• Gaytan v. Wal-Mart
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 2014-09-19· cited 37×
• Fry v. Diamond Construction, Inc.
  District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1995-06-01· cited 33×
• King v. Lens Creek Ltd. Partnership
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1996-12-16· cited 31×
• 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×
• Ashby v. Northwestern Public Service Co.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1992-09-30· cited 17×
• Monk v. Virgin Islands Water & Power Authority
  Third Circuit· 1994-12-05· cited 15×
• Clausen v. Aberdeen Grain Inspection, Inc.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1999-05-26· cited 14×
• Fernando Martinez v. Michael Rullman
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2023-05-10· cited 14×
• Johansen v. Anderson
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1996-11-18· cited 11×
• Young v. Bob Howard Automotive, Inc.
  Court of Civil Appeals of Oklahoma· 2002-07-23· cited 10×
• Tatera v. FMC Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2009-05-12· cited 7×
• Soletski v. Krueger Int'l, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Wisconsin· 2019-01-15· cited 7×
• Anderson v. Proctor & Gamble Paper Products Co.
  E.D. Wisconsin· 2013-02-15· cited 4×
• Central Trust & Savings Bank v. Toppert
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1990-05-31· cited 2×

Cites

18 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Johnson v. Misericordia Community Hospital
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1981-01-06· cited 117×
• 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×
• Lambert v. Wrensch
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1987-01-20· cited 90×
• Tauscher v. Puget Sound Power & Light Co.
  Washington Supreme Court· 1981-10-15· cited 89×
• Phyllis M. Nelson, Etc., and Cross-Appellant v. United States of America, and Cross-Appellee v. Duncanson-Harrelson Co., Third Party
  Third Circuit· 1981-01-29· cited 85×
• Ladonna Anderson as of the Estate of Donald Anderson v. Marathon Petroleum Company, F/k/a Marathon Oil Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1986-09-16· cited 73×
• Marv Hixon D/B/A Hixon Home Improvement, and American States Insurance Company v. Sherwin-Williams Company
  Seventh Circuit· 1982-02-12· cited 69×
• King v. Shelby Rural Electric Cooperative Corp.
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1973-11-09· cited 66×
• Sloan v. Atlantic Richfield Company
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1976-07-08· cited 59×
• Jackson v. Petit Jean Electric Co-Op
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1980-09-29· cited 52×
• Lindler v. District of Columbia
  D.C. Circuit· 1974-08-23· cited 47×
• Barbara Ellen Eutsler, Individually and as Guardian Ad Litem of Brian Charles Eutsler, a Minor v. United States
  Tenth Circuit· 1967-04-12· cited 41×
• Snider v. Northern States Power Co.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1977-12-13· cited 35×
• Barth v. Downey Co., Inc.
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 33×
• Cochran v. International Harvester Co.
  W.D. Kentucky· 1975-09-02· cited 29×
• Lacount v. Hensel Phelps Construction Co.
  California Court of Appeal· 1978-04-12· cited 28×
• Jackson v. Petit Jean Electric Co-op
  Court of Appeals of Arkansas· 1980-04-23· cited 10×