Palmer v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2009
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 20 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 White Automobile Co. v. Dorsey · Southern Building & Loan Ass'n v. Price · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. Semmes · Boyd v. Johnson · Bull v. Schuberth
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It may be conceded that the appellant had the right to terminate the contract of employment and to effect a settlement of his claim without his former attorney’s intervention, knowledge or consent, but it is equally well settled that for services rendered in good faith in part performance of the canceled contract the attorney may recover under the common counts “for whatever may be due for so much of the contract as may have been performed.” Inasmuch ... as ... the plaintiffs recovery [was] confined to the quantum meruit theory, testimony as to the character and extent of the services rendered by him, and the reasonable value thereof, were not only admissible but were essential to his case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the special agreement has been put an end to by the defendant, or the performance of it on the part of the plaintiff prevented by some act of the defendant; in all such cases the plaintiff may resort to and recover under the common counts, for whatever may be due for so much of the contract as may have been performed.” 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“services actually rendered in part performance of a special contract which was cancelled”
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.