Delgado v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2021
17 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 Murphy v. Carron · DeWitt v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co. · Brown v. Mercantile Bank of Poplar Bluff · Herbert & Brooner Construction Co. v. Golden · First National Bank of Fort Smith v. Kansas City Southern Railway Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] party claiming damages for breach of contract bears the burden of proving the existence and amount of damages with reasonable certainty. Stated other wise, proof of actual facts which present a basis for a rational estimate of damages without resorting to speculation is required. Additionally, the cause of the damage claimed must be proven with reasonable certainty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rissler v. HEINZLER
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.