Hoge v. Norton’s Empirical Analysis
1879
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 1970 · most notably White v. Ladd (1902), Rexroad v. Kansas Power & Light Co. (1964)
27 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 Griffin v. . Colver · Dwight v. . St. John · Simson v. Hart · McCullough v. Clark · James & Mitchell 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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . Of course, absolute certainty is not attainable, as in casting up the figures of an account; but nevertheless there are certain laws of feeding and growth, well understood among cattle-men, and whose results work out with sufficient certainty for business calculations and judicial investigations. . . . It seems clear that the owner is damaged, that the damages may be determined to a reasonable certainty, and that the wrongdoer is bound to make good the damages.” (p. 380.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Skinner v. Gibson · Rockey v. Bacon““It is not always easy to draw the line between profits that are a legitimate element of compensation and those that are too remote, contingent or uncertain» The old idea that profits were never recoverable was long since exploded; and now, even in actions on contract, it is said that they may be recovered when proximate and certain. ‘The general rule is that the party injured by a breach of contract is entitled to recover all his damages, including gains prevented as well as losses sustained, provided they are certain and such as might naturally beexpected to follow the breach. It is only uncertain and contingent profits, therefore, which the law excludes.’ (Griffin v. Colver, 16 N. Y. 489 .)” (p. 379.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““All that is presented is whether, after an order of dissolution made according to the record upon the merits, the matter may be again examined as an original question in an action on the bond upon oral testimony before a jury; and this question we are constrained to answer in the negative.” (p. 376.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Montague
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.