Preble v. Hanna’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently December 1989
2 federal appellate · 14 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 Brigham & Co. v. Carlisle · Lee Tung v. Burkhart · McGinnis v. Studebaker · Jeffries v. Pankow · Hoskins v. Scott
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There was evidence to show that plaintiffs were and had been for several months actually engaged in manufacturing and selling soap; that they had incurred large expense in installing the necessary apparatus for manufacturing soap; that they had sold soap for several months and had at that time on hand a number of orders from different parties for soap. By locking the doors to the basement and preventing the plaintiffs from having access to their machinery, they were deprived of conducting their business and lost, therefore, not only the apparatus but also any profit they would have made from the manufacture and delivery of the soap. The plaintiffs testified to the facts showing the quantity of soap they had made and sold; the quantity they had on hand; the actual cost of manufacturing the soap, and the price they were to receive. They also testified to the number of orders on hand for soap, and the quantity of soap ordered. Plaintiffs did not attempt to prove profits by an estimate of what they would have made if permitted to operate their plant. The testimony was confined to data and facts from which the jury might compute the damages suffered by defendant’s tortious conduct with reasonable accuracy.””
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.