United States v. Limbs’s Empirical Analysis
524 F.2d 799 · 1975
Citation profile
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably 53 Cal. App. 4th 445 - Farmers Ins. Exchange v. Zerin (1997), Roberts v. Total Health Care, Inc. (1998)
26 federal appellate · 5 district · 3 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 Nathanson v. National Labor Relations Board · Brown v. O'Keefe · Steamship Company v. Joliffe · George Whitman v. National Bank of Oxford · United States v. Neidorf
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“founded upon any contract express or implied in law or fact.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“'enforced ... by compelling the obligor to restore the value of that by which he was unjustly enriched.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The government’s claim, however, is founded not upon tort but upon quasi-contract. The right to recover the benefit payments does not have its genesis in the automobile accident; it is triggered by the recovery from the third party. This claim is not for damages suffered as a result of an injury to the government caused by the Limbses; it is for restitution of payments in order to avoid a double recovery. The principle is not to vindicate impairment of a right; it is to prevent unjust enrichment. See generally, W. Keener, Quasi-Contracts 5-25 (1893).”
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.