Lewis v. S.L. & E., Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
3 federal appellate ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2015
3 federal appellate ·
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 Ross v. Bernhard · Raymond Spector, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant v. Milton E. Mermelstein, Defendant-Appellant-Appellee · United Bank Limited, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant v. Cosmic International, Inc., Janata Bank and Amin Jute Mills, Ltd. v. Cosmic International, Inc. And Irving Trust Company, Sonali Bank and Nishat Jute Mills, Ltd. v. Irving Trust Company and Cosmic International, Inc., Nishat Jute Mills, Ltd. And National Bank of Pakistan, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Appellants v. Cosmic International, Inc. · Lewis v. S. L. & E., Inc.
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nterest shall be recovered upon a sum awarded because of a breach of performance of a contract.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]ven on a claim with equitable underpinnings, such as one for breach of fiduciary duty, [the statutory rate of] prejudgment interest would be mandatory where the only relief sought was compensatory damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to assure complete indemnification to plaintiffs whose property ha[s] been damaged by the wrongful act of another.”
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.