Dass v. Epplen’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably In Re Marriage of Graham (1978), Leasepartners Corp. v. Robert L. Brooks Trust (1997)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 29 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 Wistrand v. LEACH REALTY COMPANY · Valley Realty & Investment Co. v. McMillan
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The essential elements of quasi contract are a benefit conferred on the defendant by the plaintiff, appreciation by the defendant of such benefit, and acceptance and retention by the defendant of such benefit under circumstances such that it would be inequitable for him to retain the benefit without payment of the value thereof.””
3 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.