156 Ill. App. 3d 806 - Partipilo v. Hallman’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 351 Ill. App. 3d 1 - Hayes Mechanical, Inc. v. First Industrial, L.P. (2004), 195 Ill. 2d 257 - Sundance Homes, Inc. v. County of Du Page (2001)
8 federal appellate · 9 district · 30 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 87 Ill. App. 3d 480 - Edens View Realty & Investment, Inc. v. Heritage Enterprises, Inc. · Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington · First National Bank of St. Paul v. Ramier · 16 Ill. App. 3d 1060 - Dickerson Realtors, Inc. v. Frewert · Sheasgreen Holding Co. v. Dworsky
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The theory on which the plaintiff in this suit seeks money damages, unjust enrichment, sometimes referred to as restitution, a contract implied in law, quasi-contract, or an action in assumpsit, is the product of a long tradition in law, and is an action at law. (Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington (1911), 253 Ill. 164, 173 , 97 N.E. 280 , 284-85; Dickerson Realtors, Inc. v. Frewert (1974), 16 Ill. App.3d 1060, 1063 , 307 N.E.2d 445, 448 ; see Restatement of Restitution, Introductory Note (1937); 1 Palmer, Restitution sec. 1.2 (1978); 1 A. Corbin, Contracts, sections 19, 20 (1 vol. ed.1952); Dobbs, Remedies sec. 4.2, at 232 (1976).) The confusion with equity emanates from the decision of the King’s Bench in 1760 in the case of Moses v. Macferlan, 2 Burr. 1005, 97 Eng.Rep. 676, where Lord Mansfield stated that the defendant’s obligation came ‘from the ties of natural justice’ founded in ‘the equity of the plaintiffs ease.’ (See 1 Palmer, Restitution see. 1.2, at 7 (1978); Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington (1911), 253 Ill. 164, 173 , 97 N.E. 280 , 285.) As Palmer explains, the statement concerning the action of quasi-contract being equitable has been repeated many times, but merely refers to the way in which a claim should be approached ‘since it is clear that the action is at law and the relief given is a simple money judgment.’ (1 Palmer, Law of Restitution sec. 1.2, at 7 (1978).) ...””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“unjust enrichment,” sometimes referred to as restitution, a contract implied in law, a quasi-contract, or an action in assumpsit, is concerned with”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.