Charest v. Busby’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently December 1992
4 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 Owens v. Muslow · 128 So. 2d 62 - Jack v. Henry · 100 So. 2d 799 - Jones v. Tusa · 76 So. 2d 753 - Hansman v. Uddo & Taormina Company
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The law applicable in such a case as this is clear. If there has been substantial compliance with the terms and conditions of the contract existing between the parties, then the contractor is entitled to be paid the contract price. The remedy of the owner is a diminution of the price to be paid by whatever amount is necessary to complete the work in accordance with the original contract. There were no specifications for this job. Only a floor plan, a material list, and the original contract and contract amendment appear in the record. No showing has been made by either party as to whether or not the materials called for were actually used in the construction of the house, or if the materials complained of were in fact sub-standard. The entire case made by the defendant appears to be based on the fact that the caliber of workmanship employed in constructing the house was sub-standard. “There can be very little doubt as to the correctness of this assertion. The question here is whether or not the character of the workmanship is so poor as to constitute non-compliance with the terms of the contract. “In the opinion of the Court, this is the case. It is inherent in any building contract that the work be performed in a good and workmanlike manner. That it was not so performed in this case is sufficient to constitute noncompliance with 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.