Babb v. Rothrock’s Empirical Analysis

1993

Citation profile

cited by 33 later decisions

states following

February 2014

most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 22 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Future Group, II v. Nationsbank (1996), Butler Contracting, Inc. v. Court Street, LLC (2006)

3 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 Wayne Smith Construction Co. v. Wolman, Duberstein, & Thompson · Sears v. Fowler · Southern Welding Works, Inc. v. K & S Construction Co. · Babb v. Rothrock · Edens v. South Carolina Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance

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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“from the time when, either by agreement of the parties or operation of the law, the payment is demandable, if the sum is certain or capable of being reduced to certainty.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Keane v. Lowcountry Pediatrics, P.A. · Vanwyk Textile Systems, B v. v. Zimmer MacHinery America, Inc.
“prejudgment interest is allowed on a claim of liquidated damages; i.e., the sum is certain or capable of being reduced to certainty based on a mathematical calculation previously agreed to by the parties ... [t]he fact that the amount due is disputed by the opposing party does not render the claim unliquidated for the purposes of an award of prejudgment interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Bickerstaff v. Prevost · 176 F. Supp. 2d 510 - Liberty Mut. Ins. v. EMPLOYEE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
“[t]he proper test for determining whether prejudgment interest may be awarded is whether or not the measure of recovery, not necessarily the amount of damages, is fixed by conditions existing at the time the claim arose.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Bickerstaff v. Prevost · 176 F. Supp. 2d 510 - Liberty Mut. Ins. v. EMPLOYEE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

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.