110 Ind. App. 659 - Retter v. Retter’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2006
20 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 83 Ind. App. 488 - Western Oil Refining Co. v. Underwood · 89 Ind. App. 374 - Boyd v. Chase · 92 Ind. App. 43 - Klein v. Niezer & Co. · 95 Ind. App. 558 - Ninde v. Bank of Geneva
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An implied contract, that is, one wherein an agreement is arrived at by the acts and conduct of the parties, is equally as binding as an express contract, wherein the agreement is arrived at by their words, spoken or written. In either case it grows out of the intention of the parties to the transaction.”
7 later decisions 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.