Swan v. Beaubouef’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2016
13 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 Bascle v. Perez · Doll v. Albert Weiblen Marble & Granite Co. · 176 So. 2d 836 - Bordelon Motors, Inc. v. Thompson · 137 So. 2d 680 - Haase v. Brumfield
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The determination of this amount owed by the party receiving the benefit shall be derived from a reasonable evaluation of the services performed as adjusted to the circumstances of the individual situation. See Haase v. Brum field, La.App., 137 So.2d 680 . Thus a necessary issue to the suit involving quantum meruit is the reasonable evaluation of the services when such recovery is due and owing."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . Generally quantum meruit is based on the legal maxim that no one is no one is to enrich himself at the expense of another. . . * * * * * *”
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.