McCall v. Sherbill’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 2006
3 federal appellate · 15 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 Rynveld v. Dupuis
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are many types of cases in which damages may be certain, but the amount of damage may be uncertain. However, such uncertainty will not necessarily preclude recovery. [[Image here]] “ . . . [Djamages are not rendered uncertain because they cannot be calculated with absolute exactness. It is sufficient that there be a reasonable basis of computation although the result may be only approximate.””
6 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.