Billes v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2019
2 district · 8 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 Truitt v. Miller · William J. Davis, Inc. v. Slade · Brown v. Brown · Miller v. Peoples Contractors, Ltd. · Rommel v. West American Insurance Company
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.
“No person shall require or accept any payment for a home improvement contract in advance of the full completion of all work required to be performed under the contract, unless that person is licensed as a home improvement contractor or as a licensed salesperson employed by a licensed contractor in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he doctrines of in pari delicto and unclean hands do not entitle an unlicensed ... contractor to recover in a suit for an unpaid balance under a contract that is void,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“must pay deference to the legislature's intentional exposure of unlicensed contractors, which discourages unlicensed work[.]”
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.