226 Ga. App. 21 - Watson v. Sierra Contracting Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Iraola Cia Sa v. Kimberly-Clark Corporation Na Jn (2003), Wheat Enterprises, Inc. v. Redi-Floors, Inc. (1998)
25 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 Lau's Corp., Inc. v. Haskins · Prophecy Corp. v. Charles Rossignol, Inc. · Burnette Ford, Inc. v. Hayes · 119 Ga. App. 513 - Chandler v. Gately · Western & Atlantic Railroad v. Evans
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An action on open account is a simplified pleading procedure where a party can recover what he was justly and equitably entitled to without regard to a special agreement to pay such amount for goods or services as they were reasonably worth when there exists no dispute as to the amount due or the goods or services received.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Quantum meruit is not available when there is an express contract; however, if the contract is void, is repudiated, or can only be implied, then quantum meruit will allow a recovery if the work or service was accepted and if it had value to the recipient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ppellant, having failed to disclose the identity of her principal throughout the transaction, may be liable instead of the principal at the election of the party vested with the cause of action”
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.