uncertain damages
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 555 - Story Parchment Co. v. Paterson Parchment Paper Co. · 1931Most cited · 3,280 citing opinions
The rule which precludes the recovery of uncertain damages applies to such as are not the certain result of the wrong, not to those damages which are definitely attributable to the wrong and only uncertain in respect of their amount.
How often courts cite the case defining “uncertain damages”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “uncertain damages” — 3,259 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.