Raney v. Gillen’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2012
1 federal appellate · 12 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 Givens v. Chandler
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where the object of the contract is any thing but the payment of money, the damages due to the creditor for its breach are the amount of the loss he has sustained, and the profit of which he has been deprived, under the following exceptions and modifications: * * * * * * "2. When the inexecution of the contract has proceeded from fraud or bad faith, the debtor shall not only be liable to such damages as were, or might have been foreseen at the time of making the contract, but also to such as are the immediate and direct consequence of the breach of that contract; but even when there is fraud, the damages can not exceed this. * * *" [7 LSA-C.C. Art. 1934, p. 220.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Neither do we find the attack upon the nature of the relief to be tenable. It was essential for plaintiff to predicate this action upon a reformation of the written instrument in order to avail himself of the right to establish an additional agreement by parol testimony, which under any other nature of proceeding might have been properly excluded on the ground that it sought to vary the terms of the written instrument.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Curran“"Under our interpretation of the codal articles referred to, supported by the authority cited, we think that attorney's fees in the instant case are a proper element of damages which should be assessed against the defendant who breached his contract with plaintiff, obviously influenced by motives of self interest."”
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.