loudvq,
You did not mention John Deere. I've heard many say JCB is the most useless of all. I don't operated many backhoes but I have a 310D and compared to the newer JCB my friend owns, the Deere is much nicer to operate. My steering is 2.5 turns hard right to hard left. The JCB seems like 50 turns and the backhoe controls on the Deere work so easy and the JCB so ridiculously hard. But the frame on the JCB is massive so it depends what your comparing.
One thing I've noticed on this wonderful site is every Case seems to be broken but I know there is thousands old Cases around. Don't want to offend any one, just like to here opinions. It's fun to read comments.