Kuitems v. Covell’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently July 2017 · most notably Gagne v. Bertran (1954), Aced v. Hobbs-Sesack Plumbing Co. (1961)
38 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
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Obviously, the statement in the written contract that it contains the entire agreement of the parties cannot furnish the appellants an avenue of escape from the entirely reasonable obligation implied in all contracts to the effect that the work performed `shall be fit and proper for its said intended use.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“with care, skill, reasonable expedience, and faithfulness the thing agreed to be done”
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.