Overland Const. Co., Inc. v. Sirmons

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding a statute unconstitutional because it eliminated a right of redress that was first recognized by the common law in 1959
• stating that the statute violates access to the courts
• holding unconstitutional as applied in section 95.11(3)(c), Florida Statutes (1975)
• interpreting language similar to Colo. Const. art. II, § 6 to forbid abrogation of common law rights absent an overpowering public necessity and declaring a statute of repose unconstitutional on that basis
• engineers, architects and builders statute of repose
• a special sort of product liability case

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

98 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Klein v. Catalano
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1982-07-07· cited 233×
• Kenyon v. Hammer
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1984-09-19· cited 223×
• Berry by and Through Berry v. Beech Aircraft
  Utah Supreme Court· 1985-12-31· cited 214×
• Zapata v. Burns
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1988-05-17· cited 195×
• Mominee v. Scherbarth
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1986-12-22· cited 178×
• Ecker v. Town of West Hartford
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1987-09-08· cited 161×
• Daugaard v. Baltic Cooperative Building Supply Ass'n
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1984-05-02· cited 116×
• Hardy v. VerMeulen
  Ohio Supreme Court· 1987-08-12· cited 112×
• Austin v. Litvak
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1984-05-07· cited 107×
• Pullum v. Cincinnati, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-08-29· cited 107×
• Blaske v. Smith & Entzeroth, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1991-12-17· cited 105×
• Twin Falls Clinic & Hospital Building Corp. v. Hamill
  Idaho Supreme Court· 1982-04-27· cited 101×
• Battilla v. Allis Chalmers Manufacturing Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-12-11· cited 96×
• Heath v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1983-07-18· cited 91×
• Hanson v. Williams County
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-06-06· cited 90×
• Gibson v. West Virginia Department of Highways
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1991-05-24· cited 87×
• Phillips v. ABC Builders, Inc.
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 1980-05-21· cited 83×
• Fitzgerald v. Congleton
  Supreme Court of Vermont· 1990-10-19· cited 76×
• Kennedy v. Cumberland Engineering Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1984-01-19· cited 71×
• Horton v. Goldminer's Daughter
  Utah Supreme Court· 1989-09-29· cited 70×

Cites

14 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Texas Petroleum Co. v. Compania Pelineon De Navegacion, S. A.
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-10· cited 276×
• Kluger v. White
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-11· cited 201×
• Saylor v. Hall
  Court of Appeals of Kentucky (pre-1976)· 1973-03-02· cited 151×
• Josephs v. Burns
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1971-12-01· cited 121×
• Slavin v. Kay
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1959-01-21· cited 111×
• Carter v. Sparkman
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1976-05-05· cited 99×
• Carter v. Hartenstein
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1970-06-22· cited 94×
• Bauld v. JA Jones Const. Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1978-03-09· cited 68×
• Scholastic Systems, Inc. v. Leloup
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-10-24· cited 61×
• Burnsed v. Seaboard Coastline Railroad Company
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1974-02-06· cited 54×
• Sunspan Eng. & Const. Co. v. SPRING-LOCK SCAFFOLD. CO.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1975-01-29· cited 45×
• Fairchild v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1971-02-19· cited 42×
• GBB Investments, Inc. v. Hinterkopf
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1977-03-01· cited 28×
• Grissom v. North American Aviation, Inc.
  M.D. Florida· 1971-05-11· cited 15×