Walter v. Huggins’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 1980
18 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 Stillwell Bierce Manuf'G Co v. Phelps · White v. McLaren · Haysler v. Owen · State ex rel. Patterson v. McReynolds · Marsh v. Richards
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fundamental idea running through all of the case law is that an owner is entitled to a performance of the contract by the contractor, and, where the contract is breached, is entitled to recover damages that will be a just equivalent for the breach.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The question ordinarily is, how much less is the building fairly worth than it would have been had the contract been performed?””
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.