Davis v. Badders & Britt’s Empirical Analysis
1891
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 1955 · most notably Handley v. Shaffer (1912), Russell v. Bush (1916)
31 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 Smith v. . Brady · Brooklyn Life Insurance v. Bledsoe · Bernstein v. Humes · Montgomery & Eufaula Railway Co. v. Kolb · Wyckoff v. . Meyers
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But whether, under the provisions of the contract, the obtainment of the architects’ certificate is a condition precedent to final payment, we deem it unnecessary to decide. If conceded that it is requisite to entitle plaintiffs to recover the final payment under the counts declaring on the special contract, if the contract has not been performed, and defendant has accepted the house, the production of the certificate is not essential to recovery under the common counts on an implied contract to pay the value of the labor done and materials furnished.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Floyd v. Pugh
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.