Tucker v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably Solomon v. Gilmore (1999), 628 So. 2d 370 - Med Plus Properties v. COLCOCK CONST. (1993)
30 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 Cooper v. Johnston · Knight v. Watson · Southern Metal Treating Co. v. Goodner · Tucker v. Trussville Convalescent Home, Inc.
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court's holding in Cooper is based on the well-established rule that if the purpose of a licensing statute is the regulation of the business licensed and not merely the collection of revenue, a person not licensed cannot enforce a contract for services rendered within the scope of the regulated business. See Knight v. Watson , 221 Ala. 69 , 127 So. 841 (1930); Southern Metal Treating Co., Inc. v. Goodner , 271 Ala. 510 , 125 So.2d 268 (1960).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Construing [§ 34-8-1 et seq.], this Court has observed, 'When the word "cost" in the definition above is construed in context, we believe it refers to the amount which the contractor is to receive for his work and not merely the out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the contractor in performing the work.' Tucker v. Walker , 293 Ala. 589 , 592 , 308 So.2d 245 , 247 (1975) (emphasis added)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In order for the [defendant] to be entitled to summary judgment, it must be shown (1) that [the contractor] was unlicensed; (2) that the contracted work was of the type covered by the statute; and (3) that the 'cost' of the work was $20,000 or more."”
2 later decisions 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.