Ohlendorf v. Feinstein’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Wulfing v. Kansas City Southern Industries, Inc. (1992), Iota Management Corp. v. Boulevard Investment Co. (1987)
1 district · 28 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 Murphy v. Carron · Coonis v. Rogers · Fohn v. Title Insurance Corp. of St. Louis · Smith v. Tracy · Ehrle v. Bank Building & Equipment Corp. of America
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““One whose wrongful conduct has rendered difficult the ascertainment of damages cannot escape liability because the damages cannot be measured with exactness.” [Citation omitted.] Further, where the fact of damage caused by a defendant’s wrongdoing is clear, “it is reasonable to require a lesser degree of certainty as to the amount of loss, leaving a greater degree of discretion to the jury, subject to the usual supervisory power of the court.” [Citation omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Burris v. Burris“reasonably certain by proof of actual facts, with present data for a rational estimate of their amount.”
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.