183 Ga. App. 622 - Ray v. Strawsma’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2012
2 federal appellate · 13 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 153 Ga. App. 747 - Georgia-Carolina Brick & Tile Co. v. Brown · 103 Ga. App. 141 - Mercer v. J. & M. TRANSPORTATION CO. · Small v. Lee & Bros. · 155 Ga. App. 808 - Rose Mill Homes, Inc. v. Michel · 153 Ga. App. 259 - Williams v. Kerns
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has some value, if only for scrap ([cit.]), and that value may obviously be whatever it is worth as a result of the irremediable defects. The owner should not have the benefit of that value, however low, by recovering [more than double] the entire contract price; the property's value as diminished by irremediable defects should be deducted from the value of the house as it should have been completed according to the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The measure of damages in these cases of alleged breach by the contractor is the difference in the value of the house as completed by the contractor and the value of the house as it ought to have been finished under the terms of the contract ...[,] but proof of such value difference is a different matter. This difference in value may be illustrated by the reasonable cost of repair of defects. 19”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the property's value as diminished by irremediable defects ... deducted from the value of the house as it should have been completed according to the contract.... If the damage cannot be repaired, it seems pointless error to insist the value be determined by cost of repair.”
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.