Ficara v. Belleau’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Polaroid Corp. v. the Travelers Indemnity Co. (1993), 21 Ill. App. 3d 925 - St. Joseph Hospital v. Corbetta Construction Co. (1974)
9 federal appellate · 38 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 Bucholz v. Green Bros. Co. · Sipley v. Stickney · Union Old Lowell National Bank v. Paine · F. A. Bartlett Tree Expert Co. v. Hartney · Stevens v. William S. Howe 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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not the policy of our law to award damages which would put a plaintiff in a better position than if the defendant had carried out his contract . . . ‘The fundamental principle upon which the rule of damages is based is compensation . . . Compensation is the value of the performance of the contract, that is, what the plaintiff would have made had the contract been performed . . . . ’ “The plaintiff is entitled to be made whole and no more. This is true in an action against a defendant for breach of contract, albeit a wilful one, even though the same defendant in suing as a plaintiff on the same contract might be barred by the rule of [no recovery].” (117 N. E. 2d, at pp. 289, 290.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is not the policy of our law to award damages which would put a plaintiff in a better position than if the defendant had carried out his contract.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“...(1) the reasonable cost of the construction and completion in accordance with the contract, if this is possible and does not involve unreasonable economic waste.”
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.