People v. Dummer’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 2022 · most notably 69 Ill. 2d 320 - Steinberg v. Chicago Medical School (1977), 146 Ill. 2d 1 - People Ex Rel. Daley v. Datacom Systems Corp. (1991)
4 federal appellate · 32 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 Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington · Wagner v. City of Rock Island · Comstock v. Hitt · Chudnovski v. Eckels · Village of Charlotte v. . Keon
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term ‘implied contract’ has also been applied to a class of obligations which are created by law without regard to the assent of the party upon whom the obligation is imposed, on the ground that they are dictated by reason and justice. They are not contract obligations in the true sense because there is no agreement of the parties, but they are constructive contracts created by the law. ... In those cases the idea of a contract is purely fictitious, since there are none of the elements of a contract present and the intention of the parties is entirely disregarded. (Board of Highway Comrs. v. City of Bloomington, 253 Ill. 164 ; Ann. Cas. 1913a, 471.) Where a contract is implied in fact it results as a legal inference from the facts and circumstances although not formally stated in words, and the difference between such a contract and an express contract is in the means of proof, whether by words or by conduct. In contracts created by construction of law, liability exists from an implication of the law arising from facts and circumstances independent of intention. (6 R. C. L. 558.) Such contracts are contracts merely in the sense that a remedy is by the statutory remedy of assumpsit and are created and governed by the principles of equity. ’ ’”
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.