Collins v. Lewis’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
3 district · 76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Therrien v. Safeguard Manufacturing Co. (1980), Rosick v. Equipment Maintenance & Service, Inc. (1993)
3 district · 76 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 Santoro v. Mack · American Brass Co. v. Serra · Stueck v. G. C. Murphy Co. · Dudley v. Hull · Eads v. Brazelton
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A true implied contract can only exist where there is no express one.”
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.