Cady v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 29 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 102 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Carlock v. Pillsbury Co. (1989), Berryman v. Riegert (1970)
12 federal appellate · 29 district · 43 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 Davis v. Re-Trac Manufacturing Corporation · Heywood v. Northern Assurance Co. · Todd v. Bettingen · Bakke v. Keller · Bigelow v. Barnes
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 102 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he theory of unjust enrichment, which theory `is founded on the principle that no one ought unjustly to enrich himself at the expense of another, and the gist of the action is that the defendant has received money which in equity and good conscience should have been paid to the plaintiff, and under such circumstances that he ought, by the ties of natural justice, to pay over.' * * * The theory of unjust enrichment or money had and received has salutary and beneficial uses and has been invoked in support of claims based upon failure of consideration, fraud, mistake, and in other situations where it would be morally wrong for one party to enrich himself at the expense of another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]ourts are not warranted in interfering with the contract rights of parties as evidenced by their writings which purport to express their full agreement,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“it would be morally wrong for one party to [be allowed to] enrich himself at the expense of another,”
2 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.