69 N.C. App. 439 - Largent v. Acuff’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently October 2017
16 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 Lockwood v. McCaskill · Mann v. VIRGINIA DARE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, INC. · Fisher Ex Rel. Fisher v. Rogers · 41 N.C. App. 143 - Garland v. Shull · Trucking Co. v. Phillips
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.
“[w]here the plaintiff can prove the fact of damage, but not the extent of it, the reasonable certainty rule as it is now applied in most courts does not require proof of damages with mathematical precision. It does require that the plaintiff adduce some relevant datum from which a “just and reasonable” estimate of the amount might be drawn, and without any such datum in the evidence, the claim will necessarily be dismissed as speculative and conjectural. Beyond this, the plaintiff is probably expected to prove his damages with as much accuracy as is reasonably possible to him, but precision not attainable in the nature of the claim and circumstances is not ordinarily required.”
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.