Short v. Riley’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2025
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 Schweiger v. China Doll Restaurant, Inc. · Rancho Pescado, Inc. v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance · El Fredo Pizza, Inc. v. Roto-Flex Oven Co. · Gilmore v. Cohen · Valley National Bank v. Brown
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.
“[O]nce the fact of damages has been shown, the amount of damages may be shown with proof of a lesser degree of certainty than is required to establish the fact of damage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The evidence required to prove loss of future profits depends on the individual circumstances of each case and, although absolute certainty is not required, the jury must be guided by some rational standard. In determining whether a plaintiff has met his burden, courts have considered the profit history from a similar business operated by the plaintiff at a different location.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rhue v. Dawson
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.