Meyer v. Bryson’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2021
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 Hartley v. Ballou · Watts v. Putnam County · Smith v. Tucker · Evens v. Young · Dixon v. Mountain City 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because there [were] still defects in the house that [had] not been repaired”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Substantial completion occurs when the owner can use the building for its intended use. If the owner can use the building for its intended use, then any defects in the construction are usually held not to be material. [[Image here]] The definition of substantial completion may differ depending on the terms of the contract and the jurisdiction. The most popular definition, and the one used in the [American Institute of Architects] documents, is that construction is substantially complete when the owner can occupy it or use it for the purpose for which it was intended....”
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.