372 So. 2d 321 - Capra v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently October 2009
11 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 Cochran v. Keeton · 87 Wash. 2d 567 - Klos v. Gockel · 47 Ala. App. 194 - Cochran v. Keeton · 372 So. 2d 317 - Capra v. Smith
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the critical question is whether the construction and sale was commercial rather than casual or personal in nature. Cf. Klos v. Gockel, 87 Wash.2d 567 , 554 P.2d 1349 (1976). Thus a builder-vendor is just as liable for his first house as his one hundredth. Similarly, a part-time builder stands on equal footing with the corporate developer of tract housing. Such a rule naturally flows from the avowed purpose of the implied warranty of habitability, to inhibit the unscrupulous, fly-by-night, or unskilled builder and ‘to discourage much of the sloppy work and jerry building that has become perceptible over the years.’ Cochran v. Keeton, 47 Ala.App. [194] at 198, 252 So.2d [307] at 310 [1970], quoting, Williston on Contracts, Vol. 7, § 926, 3d ed. 1963.” 372 So.2d at 323 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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