Henry S. Bloomgarden v. Charles B. Coyer’s Empirical Analysis
479 F.2d 201 · 1973
Citation profile
103 federal appellate · 55 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 295 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Founding Church of Scientology of Washington, D. C., Inc. v. National Security Agency (1979), Spirides v. Reinhardt (1979)
103 federal appellate · 55 district · 70 state decisions — followed in 16 states
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 294
Relies on Adickes v. S. H. Kress & Co. · United States v. Diebold, Inc. · Sartor v. Arkansas Natural Gas Corp. · Anderson v. Alabama · Miller v. . Schloss
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 295 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that services were performed under such circumstances as to give the recipient reason to understand (a) that the services were performed for him and not for someone else, and (b) that the services were not rendered gratuitously, but with the expectation of compensation; and (2) that the services were beneficial to the recipient. 4”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, in order to recover on a quasi-contractual claim, the plaintiff must show that the defendant was unjustly enriched at the plaintiff's expense, and that the circumstances were such that in good conscience the defendant should make restitution.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'An implied-in-fact contract is a true contract, containing all necessary elements of a binding agreement; it differs from other contracts only in that it has not been committed to writing or stated orally in express terms, but rather is inferred from the conduct of the parties in the milieu in which they dealt.'”
4 later decisions 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.