Mitchell v. Clarke’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2014
21 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The general damages which are implied from a breach of contract, and which need not be pleaded, must not be confused with special damages, which will not be presumed from the mere breach, but which may have accrued by reason of injuries following from it. Such special damages, if they have accrued, must be pleaded in order that the defendant may have notice of and be prepared to contest them.”
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.