Royden Brown v. Herbert B. Alkire, and Forest S. Alkire’s Empirical Analysis
295 F.2d 411 · 1961
Citation profile
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Tights, Inc. v. Acme-McCrary Corp. (1976), 110 Wash. 2d 643 - Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance v. Cox (1988)
14 federal appellate · 2 district · 6 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 Cone v. West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co. · Johnson v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad · Knauer v. United States · Globe Liquor Co. v. San Roman · Baldonado v. California
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Damages need not be proved with such preciseness as to permit a Jury to reach a verdict with mathematical certainty. An approximation is sufficient if there is substantial evidence which, together with the reasonable inferences to be drawn therefrom, provides a reasonable basis of computation.””
2 later decisions 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.