Wiley v. Silsbee’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2011
24 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 Newman v. Freitas · Higgins v. City of San Diego · 68 Cal. App. 134 - Ayres v. Lipschutz · 115 Cal. App. 353 - Theisen v. Keough · Parsons v. Segno
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is likewise now established as a proposition of substantive law that, in a case of a contract to pay for services which is void as against public policy, there arises an implied contract to pay for services rendered thereunder, * * * in quantum meruit * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Longmire v. Hall · Wall v. Lindner““It is likewise now established as a proposition of substantive law that in a case of a contract to pay for services which is void as against public policy, there arises an implied contract to pay for services rendered thereunder, and the remedy of action sounding in quantum meruit is available to recover the reasonable value thereof. In Ayres v. Lipsehutz [ 68 Cal.App. 134 ( 228 P. 720 )], on hearing by the Supreme Court, it was stated: ‘The contract being void as against public policy afforded no basis for a recovery which could have been had only upon a quantum meruit.’ In Theisen v. Keough [ 115 Cal.App. 353 ( 1 P.2d 1015 )], plaintiff sued on a contract very similar to the one here involved in one cause of action and joined therewith a second cause on quantum meruit. The trial court adjudged the contract void as against public policy and as to the quantum meruit cause found that plaintiff had been fully paid. On appeal, the court, after quoting from the case of Ayres v. Lipschutz, supra, the same paragraph as hereinabove quoted, said: ‘We, therefore, find the parties with no agreement of contract regulating the compensation to be paid; the attorney proceeding with the cause under the implied contract that he will be compensated in a reasonable amount for services performed.’ ” (See, also, Kyne v. Kyne, 74 Cal.App.2d 563 [ 169 P.2d 272 ]; Woods v. Watson, 46 Cal.App.2d 399 [ 115 P.2d 863 ].)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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