Saunders v. Sharp’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently September 2016
1 district · 7 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 Spinks v. Chevron Oil Co. · State v. Copeland · Winegar v. Froerer Corp. · Hamblin v. City of Clearfield · Management Services Corp. v. Development Associates
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Special damages are “those damages which arise from the special circumstances of the case. They have been said to be such damages as, by competent evidence, are directly traceable to failure to discharge a contractual obligation.” The supreme court emphasized that special damages must be foreseeable at the time of contracting. “Mere knowledge of possible harm is not enough; the defendant must have reason to foresee, as a probable result of the breach, the damages claimed. Furthermore, before reliance damages may be awarded, the amount of the expenditure must be found to have been reasonably made.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Language in a contract is ambiguous if the words used to express the intent of the parties are insufficient so that the contract may be understood to reach two or more plausible meanings.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“'It must be something so substantial that it could be reasonably deemed to vindicate the other's refusal to perform.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Cross v. Olsen
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.