Bailey v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably J. Koury Steel Erectors, Inc. of Massachusetts v. San-Vel Concrete Corp. (1978), R & B Elec. Co., Inc. v. Amco Const. Co., Inc. (1984)
4 federal appellate · 10 district · 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 St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance v. Indemnity Insurance Co. of North America · Arden Engineering Co. v. E. Turgeon Construction Co. · 79 N.J. Super. 294 - Power-Matics, Inc. v. Ligotti · St. John's First Lutheran Church v. Storsteen · Strauss v. West
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A “contract implied in fact” * * * arises where the intention of the parties is not expressed, but an agreement in fact, creating an obligation, is implied or presumed from their acts, or, * * * where there are circumstances which, according to the ordinary course of dealing and the common understanding of men, show a mutual intent to contract.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“essential elements of contracts 'implied - 25 - in fact' are mutual agreement[ ] and intent to promise, but [where] the agreement and the promise have not been made in words and are implied from the facts”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.