Pierce v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. United States Gypsum Co. · Lowe v. Cantrell · J. A. Sullivan Corp. v. Commonwealth · 37 Mass. App. Ct. 610 - VMark Software, Inc. v. EMC Corp. · Bucholz v. Green Bros. Co.
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule of damages in an action for breach of contract is that the plaintiff is entitled in general to damages sufficient in amount to compensate him for the loss actually sustained by him, and to put him in as good position financially as he would have been in if there had been no breach ... He may not insist upon extraordinary or unforeseen elements of damage, but only such as flow according to common understanding as the natural and probable consequences of the breach and such as may be presumed to have been in contemplation of the parties at the time the contract was made.”
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.