Bevan v. J.H. Construction Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2025
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 101 Mich. App. 754 - Godwin v. Lindbert · Reis v. Sparks · Sawyers v. Sawyers · Thorley v. Thorley · Bagnall v. Suburbia Land 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The general rule of damages ... arms the trial court with the discretion to place the litigants as nearly as possible in the position they would have enjoyed had the contract not been breached.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[TJo: recover consequential damages in a breach of contract action, a claimant must (1) prove that he in fact has such damages, (2) establish the amount of such damages with reasonable certainty, and (8) show that such damages were within the contemplation of the parties at the time of contracting.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the loss of a favorable mortgage interest rate is a legitimate item of compensable damage”
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.