Sullivan v. Sproule’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 1995
2 district · 6 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 McCracken v. Stewart · Swart v. Huston · States v. Durkin · Scott v. Southwest Geease & Oil Co. · Van Deren v. Heineke & Co.
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Before one may recover damages for loss of profits to an established general business, occasioned by the wrongful acts of another, it must be made to appear that the business had been in successful operation for such period of time as to give it permanency and recognition, and that it was earning a profit which may reasonably be ascertained or approximated.” (Syl.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Rockey v. Bacon
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.