Laibly v. Halseth’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2000
11 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 Long v. Forbes · Estrada v. Hanson · Hamilton v. Diefenderfer · Hamilton v. Diefenderfer
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * such as profit or benefit to the assignor or forbearance or detriment given or suffered by the assignee; a benefit to the promisor or a detriment to the promisee; performance of an act (the making of a loan) by a promisee which he is not legally obligated to perform. In 1 Williston on Contracts, 1986, § 102A, p. 327, it is said, ‘It [detriment] means giving up something which immediately pri- or thereto the promisee was privileged to keep * * (Citations omitted.) Laibly v. Halseth, Wyo., 345 P.2d 796, 799 (1959).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a benefit to the promisor or a detriment to the promisee.”
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.