Mullen v. Brantley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• denying franchise operator who ran number of pizza franchises to recover damages for inability to open additional franchises in area
• denying-damages for lost profits where “the anticipated profits ... could have been based only on speculation and conjecture”
• denying damage award for lost profits even where plaintiff had operated other franchises of same restaurant

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

33 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commercial Business Systems, Inc. v. BellSouth Services, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1995-01-13· cited 165×
• Rancho Pescado, Inc. v. Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1984-01-17· cited 98×
• LaVay Corp. v. Dominion Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-10-02· cited 59×
• Murray v. Hadid
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1989-11-10· cited 53×
• Lockheed Information Management Systems Co. v. Maximus, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2000-01-14· cited 48×
• R.K. Chevrolet, Inc. v. Hayden
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1997-01-10· cited 37×
• Guard v. P & R ENTERPRISES, INC.
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1981-07-17· cited 28×
• Scheduled Airlines Traffic Offices, Inc. v. Objective, Inc.
  Fourth Circuit· 1999-06-14· cited 27×
• Goldstein v. Kaestner
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1992-01-10· cited 20×
• VIENNA METRO LLC v. Pulte Home Corp.
  E.D. Virginia· 2011-03-29· cited 14×
• Unnamed case
  Fourth Circuit· 1987-11-06· cited 13×
• Coastland Corp. v. Third National Mortgage Co.
  Fourth Circuit· 1979-12-26· cited 13×
• Coal Resources, Inc. v. Gulf & Western Industries, Inc.
  Sixth Circuit· 1989-01-13· cited 13×
• Carley Capital Group v. City of Newport News
  E.D. Virginia· 1989-03-23· cited 12×
• McDevitt & Street Co. v. Marriott Corp.
  E.D. Virginia· 1989-05-18· cited 10×
• Country Club Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Federal Deposit Insurance
  District of Columbia· 1996-02-14· cited 8×
• John W. Johnson, Inc. v. J. A. Jones Construction Co.
  E.D. Virginia· 1973-11-01· cited 8×
• Clark v. Scott
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1999-09-17· cited 5×
• Joyce v. Lincoln National Life Insurance
  E.D. Virginia· 1993-10-05· cited 5×
• Kay Advertising Co. v. Olde London Transportation Co.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1975-09-05· cited 4×

Cites

9 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Palmer v. Connecticut Railway & Lighting Co.
  Supreme Court· 1941-02-03· cited 137×
• E. I. duPont deNemours & Co. v. Universal Moulded Products Corp.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1950-11-27· cited 59×
• Krikorian v. Dailey
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1938-06-08· cited 40×
• Sinclair Refining Co. v. Hamilton & Dotson
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1935-03-14· cited 27×
• Pennsylvania State Shopping Plazas, Inc. v. Olive
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1961-06-12· cited 26×
• Whitehead v. Syndicate
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1910-06-09· cited 18×
• Wood v. Pender-Doxey Grocery Co.
  Court of Appeals of Virginia· 1928-09-27· cited 18×
• Washington Golf & Country Club, Inc. v. Briggs & Brennan Developers, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1956-11-26· cited 13×
• Forbes v. Wyatt
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1925-10-01· cited 13×