Wall v. Pate’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2014 · most notably Muse v. Muse (2008), Camino Real Mobile Home Park Partnership v. Wolfe (1995)
24 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 Globe Refining Company v. Landa Cotton Oil Company · Aboud v. Adams · Dairyland Insurance v. Rose · Trigg v. Allemand · State v. Garcia
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Justice Holmes more critically analyzed the foreseeability of damages rule to include a `tacit agreement' by the defendant to respond in damages for the particular damages understood to be likely in the event of breach.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]pecial provable damages flow from the disappointment of a special purpose for the subject matter of the contract or from unusual circumstances, either or both of which were known to the parties when they contracted.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]pecial damages may be allowed for items of loss more or less peculiar to the plaintiff, which may not be expected to occur regularly to other plaintiffs in similar circumstances, and are a likely loss within the contemplation of the parties at the time of contracting.”
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.