Linen Thread Co. v. Shaw’s Empirical Analysis
9 F.2d 17 · 1925
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2006
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 3 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.
Appellate journey
Relationships
Relies on Electro-Dynamic Co. v. The Electron · Lord v. The Hiram R. Dixon · Townsley v. Barneson · Reichert Towing Line, Inc., v. Long Island Machine & Marine Const. Co. · The Venezuela
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The rule that damages, if uncertain, cannot be recovered, applies to their nature, and not to their extent. If the damage is certain, the fact that its extent is uncertain does not prevent a recovery.”
3 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.