Lamons v. Chamberlain’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2018
1 federal appellate · 5 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 Early v. Street · Brady v. Oliver · 42 Tenn. App. 92 - Morristown Lincoln-Mercury, Inc. v. Lotspeich Publishing Co. · Haverlah v. Memphis Aviation, Inc. · Action Ads, Inc. v. William B. Tanner Co.
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of assessing damages in breach of contract cases is to place the plaintiff as nearly as possible in the same position [he] would have been in had the contract been performed, but the nonbreaching party is not to be put in any better position by recovery of damages for the breach of contract than he would have been if the contract had been fully performed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In the instant case, [Ms. Lamons] purchased a business operation which at least was initially limited in duration by the terms of the lease agreement for the business premises. The proper measure of damages in this case is to put [Ms. Lamons] in the position [she] would have been in had the breach not occurred, and that is the continuation of the business for the duration of time allowed under the lease agreement. In essence, [Ms. Lamons] would be entitled to the net profit she would have realized over the time period involved. To determine the net profit over this period, if any, [Ms. Lamon’s] initial investment and other expenses required for the maintenance of the business must of course be deducted from the gross receipts. [[Image here]] Further proceedings should be held to determine [Ms. Lamons’] lost net profits for the time remaining under the lease which from the record before us appears to be September 1, 1992. Profits should be reduced by the overhead as well as all sums paid for the purchase of the business.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simonton v. Huff
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.