Warren v. Denison’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2012
2 federal appellate · 11 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 Atkinson v. Jackson Bros. · Davidson v. Clearman · Woodard v. Southwest States, Inc. · Linch v. Paris Lumber and Grain Elevator Co. · Baucum v. Great American Insurance Co. of New York
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to recover on quantum meruit does not grow out of the contract, but is independent of it. It is based upon the promises implied by law to pay for beneficial services rendered and knowingly accepted. . “. . . Quantum meruit being a recovery outside of, and independent of the contract, there was no lien agreed upon between the parties to secure the payment of a quantum meruit recovery. For this reason, there is no lien to be foreclosed, and the courts below erred in ordering a foreclosure of the mechanic’s and mate-rialman’s lien contract.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Rigby“Do you find from a preponderance of the evidence that the plans and specifications were or were not prepared in a good and workmanlike manner? A: They were, or they were not.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rathmell v. Morrison“a finding that the builder did not complete the contract in a good workmanlike manner does not necessarily mean that he has not substantially performed the contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lowe v. Morrison
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.