Winder v. Winder’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 1978 · most notably 21 Cal. 3d 801 - Bullis v. Security Pacific National Bank (1978), Petersen v. Murphy (1943)
31 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 Zellner v. Wassman · Morrison v. Land · 46 Cal. App. 178 - Mayborne v. Citizens Trust & Savings Bank · Wainwright Trust Co. v. Kinder · Ellis v. Cary
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the settled law of this state that when continuous personal services are performed under an express agreement for compensation upon termination thereof, which agreement is unenforceable because not in writing (Code Civ. Proc., sec. 1624; Civ. Code, sec. 1973), the reasonable value of the services may be recovered and that the statute of limitations does not commence to run until the termination of the services, which, in such cases, is usually upon the death of the promisor.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The intention to pay and the expectation of compensation may be inferred from conduct where equity and justice require compensation, as well as from direct communications between the parties. * * * expectation of compensation may coexist with higher motives prompted by affection or the sense of duty.”
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.