McNeil v. Riccio’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 85 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Glazer v. Dress Barn, Inc. (2005), Kelley v. Tomas (2001)
2 district · 83 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 Dunham v. Dunham · Saphir v. Neustadt · Hartford Whalers Hockey Club v. Uniroyal Goodrich Tire Co. · Ubysz v. DiPietro · Reynolds v. Ramos
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 85 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the [defendant was] benefitted [benefited]. (2) that the [defendant] unjustly did not pay the [plaintiff] for the benefits, and (3) that the failure of payment was to the [plaintiff's] detriment. . . .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] contract is enforceable, despite the statute, when, subsequent to the making of the contract, there has been conduct that amounts to part performance.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“In an action for breach of contract, the cause of action is complete upon the occurrence of the breach, that is, when the injury has been inflicted.”
4 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.