Farnsworth v. Steiner’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

1 district · 34 state decisions

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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “When a cause of action arises, the injured party becomes immediately entitled to be made whole, and the amount later adjudicated as damages becomes due _ Therefore, ‘[a]ll damáges ... should carry interest from the time the cause of action accrues.’ It is only when [an award of prejudgment interest] would do an injustice that it should be denied. ... We have observed that such an injustice would occur ‘in only the most unusual case,’ ... and that even a lengthy delay attributable to the plaintiff is not an occasion for such denial.... Since an award of interest is not a penalty but compensation, fault for the delay between the injuring event and payment of consequential damages is irrelevant. ... The real question in awarding interest to a judgment creditor is whether the debtor has had use of money for a period of time when the creditor was actually entitled to it....”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Currington v. Johnson

2. “It is only when such an award would do an injustice that [prejudgment interest] should be denied. We have observed that such an injustice would occur “in only the most unusual case.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morris v. Morris

3. “the judgment finally obtained by the offeree is not more favorable than the offer, the offeree must pay the costs incurred after the making of the offer.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Hutchins v. Schwartz