Rohauer v. Little’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2019
4 district · 17 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 Mellon Bank, N.A. v. Aetna Business Credit, Inc. · Merritt Hill Vineyards Inc. v. Windy Heights Vineyard, Inc. · O'Hara Group Denver, Ltd. v. Marcor Housing Systems, Inc. · Newcomb v. Schaeffler · Perino v. Jarvis
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.
“(1) whether the parties intended to liquidate damages; . (2) whether the amount of liquidated damages, when viewed as of the time the contract was made, was a reasonable estimate of the presumed actual damages that the breach would cause; and (3) whether, when viewed again as of the date of the contract, it was difficult to ascertain the amount of actual damages that would result from a breach.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“major aspects of the contract but has deviated in insignificant particulars that do not detract from the benefit”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Davidson v. Barstad
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.