Farmer v. Farmer’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2010
12 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 Chalker v. Birmingham & Northwestern Railway Co. · Cary-Lombard Lumber Co. v. Thomas · 78 Wash. 2d 216 - Stewart v. Hammond · Stevenson v. Ewing · Singer Mfg. Co v. Draper
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [contractor’s licensing] statute was designed for protection of the public. The overriding public policy must not be defeated by an attempt to accommodate one who has violated its specific provisions, albeit unwittingly. The law will be nullified if noncomplying contractors are permitted to evade the statute by a claim of ‘unwitting violation’ or ‘undue loss’ or by a claim that the other contracting party will be ‘unduly enriched.’ Every noncomplying contractor could raise one or all of the suggested defenses. The remedy for those who find themselves in the position of appellant lies with the legislature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kyle v. Williams · Santi v. Crabb““We are not unmindful that an injustice may occur where a contractor has faithfully and fully performed his contract and no complaint is made as to his skill or workmanship.” 528 S.W.2d at 542 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Santi v. Crabb
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.