Watson v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2016
10 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 Acc. Ins. v. Simpson · Henderson v. Evans · Chicago & Eastern Illinois Ry. Co. v. Public Service Comm'n · Graybar Electric Co. v. St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. · Anchor Casualty Co. v. Commissioner of Securities
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Watsons’ complaint plainly alleges that the home builder . . . was guilty of the kind of conduct which the Commission proscribes in its rule and regulation and for which [the surety], under its bond, could be liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“One such rule and regulation ... requires, as a condition of licensure, that a home builder not be guilty of either gross negligence, incompetence, or misconduct in the building of homes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.