Hargis v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2002 · most notably McGowne v. Challenge-Cook Bros. (1982), Sampson v. Missouri Pacific Railroad (1978)
8 federal appellate · 22 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 Kansas City Stock Yards Co. v. A. Reich & Sons · Warner v. Fry · Moss v. Mindlin's, Inc. · Govero v. Standard Oil Co. · Tnemec Company, Inc. v. North Kansas City Development Co.
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the damages are in the nature of lost profits, all that can be required is to produce all the relevant facts tending to show the extent of the damages and one is not excused for a breach of contract resulting in damages simply because those damages may not be established with certainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It has been said, however, that the amount of estimated loss of earnings (and the same would apply to loss of prospective profits) should, in the event of uncertainty, at least be supported by the best evidence available. Moss v. Mindlin’s, Inc., Mo., 301 S.W.2d 761, 773 (12).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brader v. Rehm
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.