Callicott v. Gresham’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 2012
14 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 Tubb v. State · Dunn v. Love · Vicksburg & Meridian R. R. v. Ragsdale · Manning v. State · Atlantic Life Ins. Co. v. Serio
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If one party to a contract prevents another party from carrying out his part of the agreement, he becomes liable in damages for the breach of the contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“lost profit was too speculative and uncertain on which to base a judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tansil v. Horlock
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.