Goldsmith v. Virgin’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 1989 · most notably 346 So. 2d 193 - Haskins v. Clary (1977), Acme Stores, Inc. v. Better Business Bureau of Baton Rouge, Inc. (1954)
1 federal appellate · 27 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 Levy v. Madden
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant objects additionally that unearned profits are not legally demandable. That contention is one not sustainable in law, for article 1934 of the Revised Civil Code expressly declares that damages resulting from a breach of contract are the loss which ‘he has sustained’ and ‘the profit of which he has been deprived.’ ””
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.