Western Cities Broadcasting, Inc. v. Schueller’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Jobin v. McKay (1996), Fitzgerald v. Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. (1995)
10 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 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 Kimble v. People · Lee v. Durango Music · Tull v. Gundersons, Inc. · Denver Urban Renewal Authority v. Berglund-Cherne Co. · Bloskas v. Murray
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[lost profits may not be awarded if they are speculative, remote, imaginary, or impossible to ascertain.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“by a preponderance of the evidence that [she] has in fact suffered damage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is highly relevant to the issue of lost profits.”
2 later decisions 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.