Winslow Elevator & MacHine Co. v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably St. Paul at Chase Corp. v. Manufacturers Life Insurance (1971), Pennsylvania Threshermen & Farmers' Mutual Casualty Insurance v. Messenger (1943)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 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 · Abbott v. Gatch · United States Telegraph Co. v. Gildersleve · Baltimore & Ohio Railroad v. Brydon ex rel. Davis · Wolcott, Johnson & Co. v. Mount
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When two parties have made a contract which one of them has broken, the damages which the other party ought to receive in respect of such breach of contract should be such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally, i.e., according to the usual course of things from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties at the time they made the contract, as the probable result of the breach of it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“damages which [were] the natural and direct result of the breach of the contract, where such damages may reasonably have been within the contemplation of the parties at the time the contract was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.