Newbury v. Virgin’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

2 state decisions

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Plaintiffs own opinion as to the increased profits he would have reaped had he operated the shop for the entire period of his contract, based merely on one year’s past performance of the shop and on changes that would result under the contract as to plaintiffs expenses and profit retention, was not an informed opinion based on relevant facts in evidence upon which the jury could rely in assessing damages for claimed lost profits.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reardon v. Lovely Development, Inc.