Shepherd v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
41
cited by 41 later decisions
1
states following
March 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 25 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Winn v. Aleda Const. Co., Inc. · Amoco Oil Co. v. Snyder · Barnes v. Graham Virginia Quarries, Inc. · Raney v. Barnes Lumber Corp. · Butler v. Richardson
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“burden of proving with reasonable certainty the amount of damages and the cause from which they resulted; speculation and conjecture cannot form the basis of the recovery.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[D]amages based on uncertainties, contingencies, or speculation cannot be recovered.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, when there is a deficiency in title, quantity, or quality of an estate, the purchaser has the option to require the seller to convey such part as the seller is able, with an abatement of the purchase price for any deficiency.”
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.