Sturgeon v. Phifer’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2014
15 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 Sale v. State Highway & Public Works Commission · Bader v. Mills & Baker Co. · Pacific Trading Co. v. Mouton Rice Milling Co. · Asbell Bros., Inc. v. Nash-Davis MacHinery Company · 3 Wis. 2d 291 - Long Investment Co. v. O'DONNELL
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.
“[glenerally, it is the party who has breached the contract who bears the burden of proof in establishing matters asserted by him in mitigation or reduction of damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.