Schaff v. Landers’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
October 1987
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bascle v. Perez · 294 So. 2d 512 - Succession of Butler · 334 So. 2d 420 - Oil Purchasers, Inc. v. Kuehling · 1 La. Ann. 197 - Camfrancq v. Pilie
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"When one employs a lawyer for professional services and the amount of measure of the lawyer's fees is not expressly agreed upon, there is a contract, including an implied promise to pay the lawyer `the value' of those services within the principle of La.C.C. 1816: Actions without words, either written or spoken, are presumptive evidence of a contract, when they are done under circumstances that naturally imply a consent to such contract. To receive goods from a merchant without express promise, and to use them, implies a contract to pay the value...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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