Bell v. Battles’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2002
5 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 State ex rel. Williams · W. J. Gayle & Sons, Inc. v. Deperrodil · 441 So. 2d 497 - McKneely v. Don Coleman Const. Co., Inc. · 428 So. 2d 867 - Baham v. Community Motors, Inc. · 429 So. 2d 198 - Drewes v. Giangrosso
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.
“1) Generally the amount of the award is the difference between the sale price and the price that a reasonable buyer and seller would agree upon knowing of the defect (the difference in price is established through expert testimony, immediate resale or legitimate/reasonable offers to purchase), or 2) Where there is no evidence of the difference in price, damages are based on the cost to repair the structure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] vendor-builder of a residence is considered to be a manufacturer, and as such he cannot avoid the conclusively presumptive knowledge of the defects in thejjthing he manufactures. Since Mr. Giangrosso built the house which was the object of the sale herein, he must be considered the manufacturer. As such, he is hable for all damages caused by the defect and reasonable attorney fees, (citations omitted)”
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.