Kuhn Construction Co. v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 1996
1 district · 2 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 Haddock v. Board of Public Education in Wilmington · Haddock v. Board of Public Education · Lord v. City of Wilmington · Light & Power Construction Co. v. McConnell · 40 Del. Ch. 281 - Light & Power Construction Co. v. McConnell
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To allow a general contractor ... to be awarded a contract and to thereafter hire individual craftsmen with the required licenses as needed to perform specialty work would emasculate the purpose of the statute and again give rise to an unhealthy relationship between contractors and subcontractors which the statute was designed to prevent.””
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.