Easterday v. Masiello’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Menendez v. Paddock Pool Construction Co. (1991), Bruzga v. PMR Architects, P.C. (1997)
27 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 280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones · Gernat v. Gernat · 492 So. 2d 1329 - Florida Bar v. Wolf · West v. Caterpillar Tractor Company, Inc. · Gulfstream Park Rac. Ass'n v. Dept. of Bus. Reg.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he holding in Slavin that the contractor was only liable for latent defects was not based so much on the lack of privity as it was on the principle that it would be unfair to continue to hold the contractor responsible for patent defects after the owner has accepted the improvement and undertaken its maintenance and repair.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t has long been recognized that the doctrine of strict products liability does not apply to structural improvements to real estate.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the defect was patent to the owner who contracted and accepted the contractor's completed product.”
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.