Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. Sheets’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2009
1 federal appellate · 13 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 Anvil Mining Co. v. Humble · Anvil Min Co v. Humble · Bishop-Babcock-Becker Co. v. Estes Drug Co. · Ft. Smith W. R. Co. v. Williams · Border City Ice & Coal Co. v. Adams
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For the breach of an obligation arising from contract, the measure of damages, except where otherwise expressly provided by this chapter, is the amount which will compensate the party aggrieved for all the detriment proximately caused thereby, or which, in the ordinary course of things, would be likely to result therefrom. No damages can be recovered for a breach of contract, which are not clearly ascertainable in both their nature and origin.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is a matter of common knowledge and experience that persons who have an established business calculate with reasonable certainty the income derived and to be derived from their business and make their plans to live accordingly. In fact, the credit structure of the country rests largely upon the certainty of income from established business in all lines of business and industry, and certainly the value of an established business is not such a matter of speculation, nor the prospect of profits therefrom so remote, as not to form a basis for recovery of damages for injury to it [[Image here]]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'it is proper to let the jury determine what the loss is from the best evidence the nature of the case admits.'”
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.