Melder v. Gassiott’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Jordan v. Travelers Insurance Company · Tiger Well Service, Inc. v. Kimball Production Co. · Nichols Ford Company, Inc. v. Hughes · 338 So. 2d 946 - A & M Pest Control Serv., Inc. v. FEJTA CONST. CO. INC. · 413 So. 2d 260 - Bico Enterprises, Inc. v. Cantrell
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If an undertaker fails to do the work he has contracted to do, or if he does not execute it in the manner and at the time he has agreed to do it, he shall be liable in damages for the losses that may ensue from his non-compliance with his contract.”
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.