First Construction Co. v. Gallup’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
May 1994
most recently cited
2 district · 2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wood v. Hatcher · Williams v. Safeway Stores, Inc. · Ferraro v. Fink · Rice v. Rice · Campbell v. Davis
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 want or failure in the whole or in part, of the consideration of a written contract, may be shown as a defense, total or partial, as the case may be, in an action on such contract, brought by one who is not an innocent holder in good faith.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Berryman v. Kmoch
How this case has been treated — in progress
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