Short v. Wise’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably Cerretti v. Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative Ass'n (1992), Army National Bank v. Equity Developers, Inc. (1989)
2 federal appellate · 6 district · 25 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 Public Broadcasting Service v. Network Project · Cornwell v. Jespersen · Shutts v. Phillips Petroleum Co. · Schraft v. Leis · Brown v. Lang
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`accepts as true the evidence and all inferences to be drawn therefrom which support or tend to support the findings of the trial judge.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The basic principle of damages is to make a party whole by putting him or her back in the same position as if the injury had not occurred, not to grant a windfall.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“that which in equity and good conscience belong[ed] to him.”
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.