Taylor v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Brooks v. Bankson (1994), 100 Md. App. 71 - Mattvidi Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Nationsbank of Virginia, N.A. (1994)
2 district · 40 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 58 So. 2d 673 - Stenor, Inc. v. Lester · Crawford v. Heatwole & Hedrick · Colonna Dry Dock Co. v. Colonna
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The law is settled that parties to a contract properly may agree in advance upon the amount to be paid for loss which may result from a breach of the contract. When the actual damages contemplated at the time of the agreement are uncertain and difficult to determine with exactness and when the amount fixed is not out of all proportion to the probable loss, the amount is deemed to have been intended as enforceable liquidated damages.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where an amount stipulated as liquidated damages would be grossly in excess of the actual damages, [courts] have leaned to hold it a penalty. Where the actual damages were uncertain and difficult of ascertainment, they have leaned to hold the stipulated amount to have been intended as liquidated damages. No form of words has been regarded as controlling. But the fundamental rule, so often announced, is that the construction of these stipulations depends, in each case, upon the intent of the parties, as evidenced by the entire agreement construed in the light of the circumstances under which it was made.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.