Reeves v. Andrews’s Empirical Analysis
1855
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 1956
8 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 Wood v. Thomas
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““But the mere failure to prosecute with effect, etc., though it would authorize a suit on the bond, would not entitle the obligee to more than nominal damages, unless special damáges, which are the immediate result of the breach, are laid in the complaint and proved on the trial. Here then, the judgment from which the appeal was taken being no measure of damages, and there being no special damages either alleged in the count or proved on • the trial, we think the plaintiff was entitled to mere nominal damages and nothing more.””
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.