Leo v. Pearce Stores Co.’s Empirical Analysis
57 F.2d 340 · 1932
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently August 2003
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 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 Bradbury v. Higginson · Brown v. Hayes · Minneapolis Baseball Co. v. City Bank · Leo v. Pearce Stores Co. · Womble v. . Leigh
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that the proper measure of damages presently recoverable by a lessor under a lease for years, from the lessee therein, on an abandonment constituting a breach thereof by the lessee, is the present value of the difference between the fair rental value, at the time of such breach, of the leased premises for the balance of the unexpired term and [2] the total agreed rent for such unexpired term.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The damages the lessor was entitled to recover was the loss of the bargain, the difference between the rent agreed on and the actual rental value of the premises for the balance of the term. Or to put the rule in another form, the lessor was entitled to recover the difference between the value of the premises with and without the lease for the balance of the term.”
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.