Swanson v. Stratos’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Sibbald v. . the Bethlehem Iron Company · Hanahan v. Simpson · Myrtle Beach Hospital, Inc. v. City of Myrtle Beach · Brading v. County of Georgetown · Strickland v. Coastal Design Associates, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is a defense to an action in quantum meruit that there is a valid express contract covering the supplied services or material furnished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gibson v. Epting
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.