Bither v. Packard’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
19 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2021 · most notably United States v. Bethlehem Steel Corp. (1942), Barnette v. Wells Fargo Nevada Nat Bank of San Francisco (1926)
19 federal appellate · 4 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.
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is elementary law that, when one person has in his possession money which in equity and good conscience belongs to another, the law will create an implied promise upon the part of such person to pay the same to him to whom it belongs, and in such cases an action for money had and received may be maintained. This form of action is comprehensive in its reach and scope, and though the form of proceeding is in law it is equitable in spirit and purpose and the substantial justice which it promotes renders it favored by the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“such unconscionableness or inadequacy in a bargain as to demonstrate some gross imposition or some undue influence”
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.