Asher v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““There can be no question that where special circumstances have been communicated to a party at the time of the making (of a contract, which go to show that the breach will involve special damages, such damages may be recovered, although not the result of an ordinary "breach. Hence when a party makes a contract and then notifies the other contracting party that such contract is made with ■ reference to a contract already entered Into or contemplated between him and a third party, he Is not confined to ordinary damages for violation of the original contract, but may recover such damages as necessarily result from the breach, or the profits which lie would have realized from such other contract, had the contract sued on been performed. Pulaski Stave Co., etc., v. Miller’s Creek Lumber Co., etc., 138 Ky. 372 , 128 S. W. 96 ; * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kentucky Consumers Oil Co. v. General Bonded Warehousing Corp.