McCray v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2018
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 6 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 Grossman Holdings Ltd. v. Hourihan · Sundie v. Lindsay
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“affirm the contract, 'insist upon the benefit of his bargain, and seek the damages that would place him in the position he would have been in had the contract been completely performed.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[h]e may treat the contract as void and seek the damages that will restore him to the position he was in 2No one in this appeal has challenged the trial court's finding that Prime materially breached its contract with the Forbeses. -5- immediately prior to entering the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“either the reasonable cost of completion, or the difference between the value the construction would have had if completed and the value of the construction that has been thus far performed.”
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.