Harris v. Holder’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2012
12 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 Fitzgerald v. La Porte · Townes v. Oklahoma Mill Co. · Hollingsworth v. Leachville Special School District · Roseburr v. McDaniel
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule established by decisions of this court is that, where a building contract is substantially performed, even though there are omissions and deviations therefrom, if such defects do not impair the structure as a whole and are remedial “without doing material damage to other parts of the building in tearing down and reconstructing, and may without injustice be compensated by deductions from the contract price, ” there may be a recovery for the amount found due after making such deductions. ***”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carter v. Quick“[i]t is elementary that there is no breach of a contract where performance is prevented, or rendered impossible, by the conduct of the other party, [cit. omit.] It is also generally recognized that a defective performance is excused . . . where it is due to the acts of the owner or his representative, unless the contractor has not offered a substantial compliance with the contract, [cits, omit.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is elementary that there is no breach of a contract where performance is prevented, or rendered impossible, by the conduct of the other party. It is also generally recognized that a defective performance of a building contract is excused where it is due to the acts of the owner or his representative, unless the contractor has |finot offered a substantial compliance 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.