Freeman v. GTS CORP.’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently August 2017
16 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 Pendergrass v. Schackow · Keenan v. Flanigan · Cloney v. Travelers Insurance Company · James Talcott, Inc. v. Prestress Erectors, Inc. · Goynes v. St. Charles Dairy, Inc.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This burden must be borne by competent evidence showing the extent of the damage and plaintiff's own uncorroborated personal estimate of the value of the loss is insufficient.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. White“maintain the [leased property] in a condition such as to serve for the use for which it is hired,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“from the very nature of the contract, and without any clause to that effect.”
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.