Commodity Credit Corp. v. Rosenberg Bros. & Co.’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

19 federal appellate · 4 district · 4 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “It is the general rule that one who is injured by the wrongful acts of another, whether as the result of a tort or of a breach of contract, is bound to exercise reasonable care and diligence to avoid loss or to minimize or lessen the resulting damage, and, to the extent that his damages are the result of his active and unreasonable enhancement thereof, or due to this failure to exercise such care, he cannot recover. * * * He must do nothing to aggravate his loss, but must do all he can to mitigate or reduce it.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Industrial Sugars, Inc. v. Standard Accident Insurance · William J. Troupe v. Milford J. Seby

2. “[Wjhere a party is entitled to the benefit of a contract and can save himself from a loss arising from a breach of it at a trifling expense or with reasonable exertions, it is his duty to do it; and he can charge the delinquent with such damages only as, with reasonable endeavors and expense, he could not prevent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Ramona Equipment Rental, Inc. ex rel. United States v. Carolina Casualty Insurance