Leininger v. Sola’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 2007
2 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 Foman v. Davis · Bankers Trust Co. v. Mallis · Brewer v. United States · Clark v. International Harvester Co. · Serzysko v. Chase Manhattan Bank
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“2. Consequential damages resulting from the seller’s breach include: a. Any loss resulting from general or particular requirements and needs of which the seller at the time of contracting had reason to know and which could not reasonably be prevented by cover or otherwise; and b. Injury to person or property proximately resulting from any breach of warranty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.