Mead v. Ringling’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 168 Wis. 2d 779 - Ramsey v. Ellis (1992), Lindquist Ford, Inc. v. Middleton Motors, Inc. (2009)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Cohen v. Stein · Kirkpatrick v. Jackson · Draheim v. Evison
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Literally translated, the words "quantum meruit" mean "as much as he deserved" or "as much as he deserves." It would be difficult to embrace within one rule the measure of damages in all cases based upon a quantum meruit. From the record in this case, however, it appears that the work done by the plaintiff should be paid for at the customary rate of pay for such work in the community at the time the work was performed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“During the conversations, the parties never agreed in definite and certain terms on just what was to be done, when it was to be done, or upon many other details .... However, where a party has rendered services to another, even though it is under an invalid and unenforceable contract, he may recover for those services upon quantum meruit, upon an implied promise of the defendant to pay for the reasonable value of the services.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We cannot refrain from calling attention to the fact that a nominal sum spent for the drafting of an appropriate contract would have avoided this litigation. In the discussion necessary for the preparation of such a contract there would of necessity have been a meeting of the minds of the parties on the details before it could have been reduced to writing.””
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.