Fox v. Webb’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Levesque v. D & M BUILDERS, INC. (1976), Carter v. Quick (1978)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 Low v. Low · Spradling v. May · Rudicell v. Rudicell · Walstrom v. Oliver-Watts Construction Co. · Regional Agricultural Credit Corp. v. Hendley
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'This court in Walstrom v. Oliver-Watts Construction Co. , 161 Ala. 608 , 619 , 50 So. 46 , 50 said: " ' " * * * The authorities above-cited are uniform in holding that an owner who has sustained injury by reason of a breach of the building contract on the part of the builder, may recover in a separate action against the builder, or if sued by the builder on a quantum meruit, that he may recoup or set off such damages as are the proximate result of the breach, the amount of which, as above stated, being the difference between the value of the work furnished or building constructed and the value of that contracted for, or the reasonable value of the extra work occasioned the owner in making the building conform to the contract stipulations. 6 Cyc. 113; Suth on Damages, §§ 709-711." ' "”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The adoption, however, of FHA standards and placing them in the contract is quite different from agreeing to abide by the judgment of FHA inspectors.””
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.