Moore v. Usrey & Usrey’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 2007
9 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 Lillis v. Anderson · Thornton v. Linton · Alexandria Marble Granite Works v. Harding
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our conclusion is that an owner who is made defendant in a suit by a contractor is entitled to a reduction in the price set in the contract to the amount necessary to perfect or complete the work according to the terms of the contract. In such a case an answer setting forth that the plaintiff breached the contract by failing to complete the work in a satisfactory and workmanlike manner, and that the defendant would undergo costs amounting to more than the remaining balance of the contract in order to complete, in a satisfactory manner, the work which plaintiff contracted to do, is sufficient to place the plaintiff on guard and to permit the introduction of testimony regarding the defective condition of- the work done by the contractor, and the cost to the owner for correction of the defects and completion of the work in accordance with the original 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.