NPS, LLC v. Minihane’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably Kunelius v. Town of Stow (2009), SW Boston Hotel Venture, LLC v. SW Boston Hotel Venture, LLC (2014)
8 federal appellate · 6 district · 18 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 Lake Ridge Academy v. Carney · A-Z Servicenter, Inc. v. Segall · 128 Cal. App. 4th 1305 - Morris v. Redwood Empire Bancorp · Kendall v. Selvaggio · JMD Holding Corp. v. Congress Financial Corp.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here is no bright line separating an agreement to pay a reasonable measure of damages from an unenforceable penalty clause,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the case of an enforceable liquidated damages provision, mitigation is irrelevant and should not be considered in assessing damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'grossly disproportionate to a reasonable estimate of actual damages' made at the time of contract formation”
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.