Sterling Development Co. v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently August 2012 · most notably Ellie, Inc. v. Miccichi (2004), Proctor v. Department of Health & Environmental Control (2006)
28 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 Townes Associates, Ltd. v. City of Greenville · Player v. Chandler · SC FINANCE CORP. OF ANDERSON v. West Side Finance Co. · Drews Co. v. Ledwith-Wolfe Associates, Inc. · Salley v. McCoy
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In claiming lost profits, the degree of proof required is that of reasonable certainty. The proof must pass the realm of conjecture, speculation or opinion not founded on facts, and must consist of actual facts from which a reasonably accurate conclusion regarding the cause and the amount of the loss can be logically and rationally drawn.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he factual findings of the jury will not be disturbed unless a review of the record discloses that there is no evidence which reasonably supports the jury's findings.”
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.