Webster v. Beau’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2001 · most notably Lowrie v. Castle (1916), 65 Wash. 2d 1 - Larsen v. Walton Plywood Co. (1964)
33 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 Skagit Railway & Lumber Co. v. Cole · Kenny v. Collier · Winslow Elevator & MacHine Co. v. Hoffman · Federal Iron & Brass Bed Co. v. Hock · States v. Durkin
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A clear distinction is manifest between an interruption of, or an injury to, an existing business which has been successfully conducted for a considerable period of time, and the prevention of the establishment of an entirely new business. When the business is in contemplation, but not established, profits that may be anticipated therefrom are too speculative, uncertain, and conjectural to become a basis for the recovery of damages in an action for the subsequent loss of such profits.””
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.