Garner v. Hickman’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 857 So. 2d 748 - ROYER HOMES OF MS., INC. v. Chandeleur Homes, Inc. (2003), 743 So. 2d 954 - Sentinel Industrial Contracting Corp. v. Kimmins Industrial Service Corp. (1999)
1 federal appellate · 25 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 Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc. · Universal Life Ins. Co. v. Veasley · 726 So. 2d 96 - IP TIMBERLANDS OPERATING CO. LTD. v. Denmiss · 603 So. 2d 330 - Warwick v. Matheney · 607 So. 2d 97 - Greenlee v. Mitchell
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n breach of contract cases, attorney fees generally are not awarded absent provision for such in the contract or a finding of conduct so outrageous as to support an award of punitive damages.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“One is that materials and labor upon a building are such that even if rejected by the owner of the land he receives benefit thereof. Since the owner receives the benefits of the builder's labor and materials, it is equitable to require the owner to pay for what he gets. The second reason is that it is next to impossible for a builder to comply literally with all the minute specifications in a building contract. And the third is that the parties are presumed to have impliedly agreed to do what is reasonable under all the circumstances with reference to the subject of performance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ladner v. Manuel“In case judgment be given for the plaintiff against the builder it shall be entered against him generally ... with costs, as in other cases, and with attorney’s fees as provided below, and with a special order for the sale of the property upon which the lien exists for the payment thereof and for an execution, as in other cases, for the residue of what may remain unpaid, after the sale of the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Falkner v. Stubbs
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.