Plante v. Jacobs’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 147 Wis. 2d 500 - Micro-Managers, Inc. v. Gregory (1988), 83 Wis. 2d 378 - Klug & Smith Co. v. Sommer (1978)
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Manning v. School District No. 6 · Valentine v. Patrick Warren Construction Co. · Manitowoc Steam Boiler Works v. Manitowoc Glue Co. · Nees v. Weaver · Manthey v. Stock
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Substantial performance as applied to construction of a house does not mean that every detail must be in strict compliance with the specifications and the plans. Something less than perfection is the test of specific performance unless all details are made the essence of the contract. ..... No mathematical rule relating to the percentage of the price, of cost of completion, or of completeness can be laid down to determine substantial performance of a building contract. 10 Wis.2d at 571 and 572, 103 N.W.2d at 298 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““If the defect can be remedied without reconstructing a substantial part of the building or, as otherwise expressed, without great sacrifice of work and material already wrought into the building, the reasonable cost of correcting the defect should be allowed; if otherwise, the diminished value of the building, on the basis of the contract price, by reason of the defect. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“performance me[t] the essential purpose of the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.