Bridges v. Ferrell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2002
2 federal appellate · 6 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 76 Ill. 2d 31 - Petersen v. Hubschman Construction Co. · Burton-Dixie Corp. v. Timothy McCarthy Construction Co. · 40 Colo. App. 215 - Hoagland v. Celebrity Homes, Inc. · 147 Ga. App. 595 - Morris v. State · Jeanguneat v. Jackie Hames Construction Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an express warranty against defects for a limited period of time should not be interpreted as a limitation upon a builder vendor's liability for defective work, and in no way impairs its general obligation to perform the contract in a proper, workmanlike manner [because] the courts have held that the presence of [such] an express warranty is an added guarantee inserted into the contract to extend, rather than limit, liability for faulty construction, and as such does not proscribe the owners' exclusive remedy.”
3 later decisions 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.