White v. . Miller’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2003 · most notably Wakeman v. Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. (1886), Matter of Case (1915)
10 federal appellate · 1 district · 92 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Gains prevented, as well as losses sustained, may be recovered for a breach, of contract, where they can be rendered reasonably certain by evidence, and have naturally resulted from the breach. But mere contingent or speculative gains or losses, with respect to which no means exist of ascertaining with any certainty whether they would have resulted or not, are rejected, and the jury will not be allowed to consider them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Gains prevented, as well as losses sustained, may be recovered as damages for a breach of contract, when they can be rendered reasonably certain by evidence, and have naturally .resulted from the breach.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.