Fitz v. Coutinho’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
8 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2023
8 district · 10 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 Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Great Lakes Aircraft Co. v. City of Claremont · Hydraform Products Corp. v. American Steel & Aluminum Corp. · Pugliese v. Town of Northwood Planning Board · Restaurant Operators, Inc. v. Jenney
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In addition to proving the fact of lost profits, the plaintiff must establish the amount with reasonable certainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“abundant evidence that [the plaintiff] lost an indeterminate amount of profits because of the breach.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“carried his burden of proving the fact and amount of damages”
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.