Hamilton v. . McPherson’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2010 · most notably Hinckley v. Pittsburgh Bessemer Steel Co. (1887), 5 Mass. App. Ct. 253 - Steranko v. Inforex, Inc. (1977)
9 federal appellate · 3 district · 52 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Shannon v. Comstock
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The law for wise reasons imposes upon a party subjected to injury from a breach of contract the active duty of making reasonable exertions to render the injury as light as possible. Public interest and sound morality accord with the law in demanding this; and if the injured party, through negligence or willfulness allows the damages to-be unnecessarily enhanced, the increased loss justly falls upon him.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he burden of proving that the damages which have been sustained in such cases could have been prevented, unquestionably rests upon the party guilty of the breach of contract”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.