Turner v. Benson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2019
11 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 50 Ill. App. 3d 429 - Kemp v. Gannett · Frank v. Jansen · Illinois Central Railroad v. Johnson · Machine Co. v. Compress 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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he general rule and proper measure of damages available to a vendor as against a breaching vendee in a real estate transaction is that the vendor is entitled to the difference between the contract price and the fair market value of the property at the time of the breach. 77 Am.Jur.2d Vendor & Purchaser § 489 (1975); 92 C.J.S. Vendor & Purchaser § 537 (1955); see also Annot., 52 A.L.R. 1511 (1928). In addition, however, the vendor may recover special damages, if any, that arise out of the breach of contract in order to compensate the vendor for any loss or injury actually sustained by reason of the vendee’s breach. These special damages, though, must be within the reasonable contemplation of both parties, at the time the contract was made. Illinois Central Railroad Co. v. Johnson and Fleming, 116 Tenn. 624 , 94 S.W. 600 (1906); Machine Co. v. Compress Co., 105 Tenn. 187 , 58 S.W. 270 (1900); Hadley v. Baxendale, 9 Ex. 341, 156 Eng. Rep. 145 (1854).”
3 later decisions 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.