Jackson v. Caffey’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 1999
8 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 Standard Mill Work & Supply Co. v. Mississippi Steel & Iron Co. · 49 So. 2d 658 - Courvelle v. Eckart
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.
“American courts generally hold that substantial performance of such contracts will support a recovery either on the contract or on a quantum meruit basis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“substantial performance is not literal, full or exact performance in every slight or unimportant detail, but performance of all important particulars; and that substantial performance exists where the building or structure as a whole is not impaired, where it can be used for its intended purpose after erection, where the defects can be remedied without any great expenditure and without material damage to other parts of the structure and may without injustice be compensated for by deductions from the contract price.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garner v. Hickman
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.