Mullen v. Brantley’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 federal appellate · 4 district · 31 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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““[T]he rule is not applicable for the reason that such a business is a speculative venture, the successful operation of which depends upon future bargaining, the status of the market, and too many other contingencies to furnish a safeguard in fixing the measure of damages.””

   9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Lockheed Information Management Systems Co. v. Maximus, Inc. · Perry v. Scruggs

2. “When an established business, with an established earning capacity, is interrupted and there is no other practical way to estimate the damages thereby caused, evidence of the prior and subsequent record of the business has been held admissible to permit an intelligent and probable estimate of damages.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Colstar Petroleum Company v. Realty Partners, Inc., and Gary Digirolamo Chubb Group of Insurance Cos., Colstar Petroleum Company v. Realty Partners, Inc., and Gary Digirolamo Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. · R.K. Chevrolet, Inc. v. Hayden

3. “the establishment of such a pizza parlor [on the new site] would nevertheless have been a new business.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Colstar Petroleum Company v. Realty Partners, Inc., and Gary Digirolamo Chubb Group of Insurance Cos., Colstar Petroleum Company v. Realty Partners, Inc., and Gary Digirolamo Chubb Group of Insurance Cos.