Williams v. Amoco Production 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 although natural gas is both poisonous and highly flammable, operating natural gas well is not ultrahazardous
• drilling and operation of natural gas well was not abnormally dangerous activity for purposes of determining whether to impose strict liability on gas company
• reaffirming adoption of §§ 519 and 520 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts for determining whether an activity is abnormally dangerous
• recognizing Restatement principles of strict liability
• adopting test for determining whether an activity is abnormally dangerous

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad Company, Cross-Appellant v. American Cyanamid Company, Cross-Appellee
  Seventh Circuit· 1990-10-18· cited 72×
• Pullen v. West
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2004-06-25· cited 69×
• Falls v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1991-07-12· cited 56×
• Johnson v. Board of County Commissioners
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-03-08· cited 54×
• Maddy v. Vulcan Materials Co.
  D. Kansas· 1990-05-25· cited 50×
• Miller v. Cudahy Co.
  Tenth Circuit· 1988-09-28· cited 45×
• Bolin v. Cessna Aircraft Co.
  D. Kansas· 1991-03-06· cited 42×
• United Proteins, Inc. v. Farmland Industries, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1996-04-19· cited 40×
• Rowland v. Val-Agri, Inc.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1988-07-15· cited 34×
• Northern Natural Gas Company v. L.D. Drilling, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 2012-10-17· cited 34×
• P.W.P. v. L.S.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1998-12-18· cited 34×
• Fiorentino v. Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.
  M.D. Pennsylvania· 2010-11-15· cited 26×
• Scheufler v. General Host Corp.
  Tenth Circuit· 1997-09-18· cited 25×
• DeNardo v. Corneloup
  Alaska Supreme Court· 2007-07-13· cited 19×
• Horsch v. Terminix International Co.
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1993-12-23· cited 18×
• Laterra Ex Rel. Commercial National Bank v. Treaster
  Court of Appeals of Kansas· 1992-12-18· cited 17×
• City of Neodesha v. BP Corp. North America
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2012-08-31· cited 17×
• Eastman v. Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing LLC
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 2012-09-07· cited 17×
• Greene v. Product Manufacturing Corp.
  D. Kansas· 1993-12-28· cited 16×
• Herman v. Western Financial Corp.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1994-03-04· cited 13×

Cites

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

• Kennedy v. City of Sawyer
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1980-11-01· cited 164×
• McAlister v. Atlantic Richfield Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-04-29· cited 78×
• Roe v. Diefendorf
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1984-10-26· cited 54×
• Johnson v. American Cyanamid Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1986-05-19· cited 44×
• Helms v. Eastern Kansas Oil Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1917-12-08· cited 35×
• Henderson v. Talbott
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1954-01-23· cited 33×
• Steifer v. City of Kansas City
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1954-03-06· cited 33×
• Kearney v. Kansas Public Service Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1983-06-10· cited 31×
• Hoy v. Kansas Turnpike Authority
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1959-01-24· cited 31×
• Hashman v. Wyandotte Gas Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1910-11-05· cited 31×
• Sternbock v. Consolidated Gas Utilities Corp.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1940-01-27· cited 31×
• Atkinson v. Herington Cattle Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1968-01-27· cited 27×
• Gowing v. McCandless
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1976-03-06· cited 27×
• Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. State Corporation Comm.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1963-11-02· cited 25×
• James v. City of Wichita
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1968-12-07· cited 24×
• Berry v. Shell Petroleum Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1934-07-07· cited 23×
• Klassen v. Central Kansas Cooperative Creamery Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1946-01-26· cited 23×
• Milwaukee Insurance v. Gas Service Co.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1959-12-12· cited 18×
• Ballhorst v. Hahner-Foreman-Cale, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1971-04-10· cited 17×
• Colorado Interstate Gas Co. v. State Corp. Commission
  Supreme Court· 1964-11-23· cited 16×