Lowrie v. Castle’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 118 Ill. 2d 306 - Midland Hotel Corp. v. Reuben H. Donnelley Corp. (1987), Linkage Corp. v. Trustees of Boston University (1997)
7 federal appellate · 3 district · 62 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 United States v. Behan · Globe Refining Company v. Landa Cotton Oil Company · John Hetherington & Sons, Ltd. v. William Firth Co. · Lake v. Atlantic Works · Randall v. Peerless Motor Car 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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Prospective profits] need not be susceptible of calculation with mathematical exactness, provided there is a sufficient foundation for a rational conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“cannot be recovered when they are remote, speculative, hypothetical, and not within the realm of reasonable certainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“due to the exercise of his own judgment rather than the deceit of the defendants inducing him to resign as manager.”
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.