Goodwin v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2013
3 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 · Tucker v. Walker · Vaughn v. Thomas
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[A] contract by an unlicensed `general contractor,' as defined in § 34-8-1 , is null and void as a violation of . . . public policy. Such contracts are illegal and unenforceable by the unlicensed general contractor. "This rule has been applied to deny recovery where the action is based on the contract itself, or for work, labor, and materials furnished."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[e]xpress or implied contracts entered into by an unlicensed general contractor are null and void because they violate public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the case was not tried upon the effect of [the contractor's] lack of a license. . . . The case was tried on contract law theories.”
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.