Lowe v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2006
8 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 Loch Ridge Construction Company, Inc. v. Barra · Lee v. Gidley · W. T. Ratliff Company, Inc. v. Purvis · Fox v. Webb · 351 So. 2d 1378 - Hogan v. Alabama Power Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he proper measure of damages, where correction of defects would amount to economic waste , is the diminution of value of the house as constructed from the value it would have had if it had been constructed in a workmanlike manner.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is ample authority for allowing a contractor to recover for a balance due on his contract, while at the same time allowing the owner to recover . . . damages for unworkmanlike or incomplete performance.”
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.