Sherrod v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently October 2009
2 federal appellate · 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 Hubacek v. Ennis State Bank · El Paso Development Company v. Ravel · Maddox v. Worsham · Weingartens, Inc. v. Price
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Special damages are those that proximately result from the defendant's wrongful conduct but are of such an unusual nature that they would normally vary with the circumstances of the individual case in which they occur.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When items of special damage are claimed, they shall be specifically stated.”
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.