School District v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “The law in many cases implies a contract to pay for services received, but not in cases where, as in this case, it is doubtful whether the party claiming compensation is entitled thereto from the party with whom he deals, and where the existing conditions and the conduct of the parties are entirely inconsistent with the existence of such a contract. . . . The law will not imply that which the evidence clearly shows did not exist.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 5 Neb. Ct. App. 405 - Thomas v. Kearney Little League Baseball Ass'n