Keck v. Dryvit Systems, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 901 So. 2d 84 - Vesta Fire Ins. Corp. v. Milam & Co. Constr., Inc. (2004), 903 So. 2d 82 - Turner v. Westhampton Court, L.L.C. (2004)
21 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 547 So. 2d 870 - West v. Founders Life Assur. Co. of Florida · 538 So. 2d 794 - Bass v. SOUTHTRUST BANK OF BALDWIN CTY. · 602 So. 2d 344 - IMED Corp. v. Systems Engineering Assoc. · 335 So. 2d 128 - Casrell v. Altec Industries, Inc. · 589 So. 2d 687 - Tuscaloosa County Com'n v. Deputy Sheriffs
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[j]udicial decision-making should not be seen as the opportunity to legislate.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a multilayered wall system that actually composes the exterior walls of a building. By virtue of the very function of the EIFS as an exterior wall system, the EIFS could not be a structural component of a building that one might expect to replace after normal wear and tear. A stucco exterior wall is the equivalent of a brick wall; it is a part of the structural integrity of a housea homeowner expects it to be weather resistant and to endure for the entire useful life of the house”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a judicially created accommodation of Alabama law to the doctrine of strict liability for damage or injuries caused by allegedly defective products.”
2 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.