Simmons v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Oates v. Jag, Inc. (1985), 620 So. 2d 1244 - Casa Clara Condo. Ass'n v. Charley Toppino and Sons, Inc. (1993)
26 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 280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones · Slavin v. Kay · 258 So. 2d 11 - Gable v. Silver · Oliver v. City Builders, Inc. · 31 Colo. App. 475 - Utz v. Moss
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the purchaser can ill afford to suddenly find a latent defect in his or her home that completely destroys the family's budget and have no remedy for recourse.”
4 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.