Jones v. Dickens’s Empirical Analysis
394 F.2d 233 · 1968
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1990
5 federal appellate · 1 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 Perino v. Jarvis · Chisholm v. Reitler · Mitchell v. Evans · Whitlock & Associates, Inc. v. Aaron · Thach v. Durham
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * [B]efore an agreement [for liquidated damages] may be enforced * * * it must appear that the damages to be anticipated were uncertain in amount or difficult to be proved; that the parties intended to liquidate them in advance, and that the amount stated is a reasonable one not greatly disproportionate to the presumed loss or injury. * * *”
1 later decision 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.