Tyson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2015
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Robinson v. Crotwell · Andrews v. Frierson · Grimball v. Cruse · Humes v. Decatur Land Im. & Furnace Co. · Davidson v. . Westchester Gas-Light Co.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Where, in the absence of an express contract, valuable services are rendered by one person to another, which are knowingly accepted, the law will presume an obligation to pay therefor what such services are reasonably worth, unless there is some other circumstance to rebut the presumption.'”
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.