Atkinson v. Morse’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 1962
15 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.
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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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Damages for loss of profits are more frequently allowed to be recovered in cases of tort than contract; but when loss of profits arising from a breach of contract can be proved with a reasonable degree of certainty, and such loss is directly traceable to the breach of the contract, there is no reason why such damages may not be recovered. The cases, however, are exceptional where they can be recovered, and such profits, in order to afford a basis for recovery, must not be conjectural or speculative, or subject to uncertain contingencies.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Leonard v. Beaudry
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.