Nelson v. Preston’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 83 Wis. 2d 686 - Puttkammer v. Minth (1978), 131 Wis. 2d 389 - Schaller v. Marine National Bank of Neenah (1986)
2 district · 23 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 Miller v. . Schloss · Dunnebacke Co. v. Pittman · Grossbier v. Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway Co. · Clark v. Sloan · Lipinski v. Lipinski
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he essential elements of quasi contract entitling one to judgment for unjust enrichment are: "1. A benefit conferred upon the defendant by the plaintiff; "2. Appreciation by the defendant of the fact of such benefit; "3. Acceptance and retention by the defendant of such benefit, under circumstances such that it would be inequitable to retain the benefit without payment of the value thereof.””
3 later decisions 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.