Beach v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 1985
17 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 Messmore v. New York Shot & Lead Co. · Blagen v. Thompson · Robertson v. Cloud · White v. Leatherberry
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If complete performance of a contract is prevented by either party, the other, who is willing and. able to perform, must be compensated in damages to the extent of making Mm whole. Robertson v. Cloud, 47 Miss. 208 . “The rule that damages which are uncertain or contingent cannot be recovered does not apply to an uncertainty as to the value of the benefit or gain to he derived from performance, hut to an uncertainty or contingency as to whether any such gain or benefit would be derived at all.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Studdard v. Carter
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.