Phenix-Georgetown, Inc. v. Chas. H. Tompkins Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Riggs National Bank of Washington, D.C. v. District of Columbia (1990), Beckman v. Farmer (1990)
3 federal appellate · 3 district · 19 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 Beacon Theaters Inc v. C Westover · Harris v. McRae · Wells v. Simonds Abrasive Co. · Nader v. De Toledano · Holland v. Hannan
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“where defects in the work of construction of a building are known or readily discoverable by the purchasers of the property, and no complaint about the quality of the work is promptly made by them, their acceptance of the property discharges any right to damages which they might have had for the defects.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he damages which are normally recoverable in actions for breach of contract are those which arise directly from the breach itself, or could reasonably have been in the contemplation of both parties when they made the 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.