Allis v. McLean’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 1963 · most notably C. W. Hunt Co. v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. (1908), Mississippi Power Co. v. Harrison (1963)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Booth v. . Spuyten Duyvil Rolling Mill Co. · James & Mitchell v. Adams · Salvo v. Duncan · Frazer v. Smith · Cary v. Hewitt
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But in some eases profits are the best possible measure of damage, for tlie very reason that the loss is indisputable, and the amount can be estimated with almost absolute certainty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““But this case is thought to be different, because here the' fair rental value of the mill is proved, and it is said that this was certainly lost. But we do not know that that was the case. If the. mill had been in condition to rent at that time, there may have been no customer for it on terms the owner would have consented to grant; and, if customers were abundant and satisfactory, it cannot be assumed that the whole rental, value is lost when a mill stands idle. The wear and tear of machinery and buildings in use is something, and it is not improbable that the landlord would take this, among other things, into account in determining what should be the rent. But in this case it does not appear that rent was lost or could have been lost, for it is not shown that defendants desired to rent, or would have consented to do so if a customer had offered. In fact, the contrary is clearly inferable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““They depend on many circumstances, among which are capital, skill, supply of logs, supply and steadiness of labor; and one man may fail while another prospers, and the same man may fail at one time and prosper at another, though the prospective outlook seems equally favorable at both times.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fell v. Newberry
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.