Wood v. Day’s Empirical Analysis
859 F.2d 1490 · 1988
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2019
9 federal appellate · 7 district · 2 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 Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · Wilson v. Johns-Manville Sales Corp. · Ceco Corp. v. Coleman · Eugene B. Kassman v. The American University. Appeal of Lloyd Ultan · Eureka Investment Corporation Nv v. Chicago Title Insurance Company Chicago Title Insurance Company
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile damages are not required to be proven with mathematical certainty, there must be some reasonable basis on which to estimate damages.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when recovery is sought for future consequences of a tort, damages are ‘available only if such consequences are reasonably certain.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he evidence presented must be more than a 'scintilla'....”
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.