Bright’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
6 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 2018
6 district · 5 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 Winston v. Mediafare Entertainment Corp. · Skycom Corporation v. Telstar Corporation · Gilpin v. American Federation of State, County, & Municipal Employees · Overstreet v. Kentucky Central Life Insurance · Missouri Housing Development Commission v. Brice
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.
“[N]o quasi-contractual recovery is possible ‘when the parties have clearly and plainly expressed in writing the actual contract between them'.” (quoting Shanks v. Wilson, 86 F.Supp. 789, 794 (S.D.W.Va.1949))), cert. denied, 513 U.S. 875 , 115 S.Ct. 202 , 130 L.Ed.2d 133 (1994); In re Chateaugay Corp., 10 F.3d 944 , 958 (2d Cir.1993) (”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“When the dust is settled, this case presents nothing more than two sophisticated parties engaged in a supplier-distributor relationship governed by written contracts. Through contract, the parties have established the scope of their benefits and the limits of their liabilities, thereby injecting predictability and regularity into their relationship .... If [the plaintiff] had desired a higher price for its services or reimbursement for its actual costs, it should have bargained for such terms and embodied them in contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Here, Gillespie moved for summary judgment on 'all claims against him.' ... Accordingly, Appellant was on notice 'to come forward with all ... evidence' relevant to his tortious interference claim, satisfying Celotex. "). "Unjust enrichment of a person occurs when he has and retains money or benefits which in justice and equity belong to another.”
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.