Sperry v. Moler’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently January 2003
16 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 Cecio Bros., Inc. v. Feldmann · Bertozzi v. McCarthy · Fuessenich v. DiNardo · Beckman v. JALICH HOMES, INC. · Levesque v. D & M BUILDERS, INC.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had probable cause to defend the matter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“As a general rule, in awarding damages upon a breach of contract, the prevailing party is entitled to compensation which will place him in the same position he would have been had the contract been properly performed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It would appear that the matter of costs under this section is discretionary with the trial referee.”
1 later decision 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.