Alexander v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2019
20 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 Management Services Corp. v. Development Associates · Schneidt v. Absey Motors, Inc. · 23 Utah 2d 1 - Keller v. Deseret Mortuary Company · Beckstrom v. Beckstrom · McCarty v. United States
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“place the nonbreaching party in as good a position as if the contract had been performed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“no obligation to mitigate damages by taking action which [Almon himself] refused to take. [Almon] had the same opportunity as [Noel] to decrease damages ..., yet declined to do so. Whei-e the party having the primary duty for performance has the same opportunity to perform and the same knowledge of the consequences of nonperformance as the party to whom the duty is owed, he cannot complain about the failure of the latter to perform this duty for him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Even though that evidence is undisputed, the trial judge was not necessarily compelled to accept such self-interested testimony whole cloth and make such an award; and in the absence of patent error or clear abuse of discretion, this court will not disturb his findings and judgment.”
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.