Williams v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
2 district · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1973
2 district · 8 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 Fire Insurance Ass'n v. Wickham · Moffett, Hodgkins & Clarke Co. v. Rochester · 3 E.H. Smith 489 - Dolan v. . Rodgers · Philpot v. Gruninger · Spalding v. . Rosa
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While in early times entire contracts were strictly construed, under the more modern doctrine it has been held that where parties enter into an entire special contract for a stipulated compensation and it is partly performed, but before completion, one of the parties dies, or without his fault performance is rendered impossible, there is no liability upon the contract. But where though acting under such contract, one of the parties has done for or delivered to the other party something of value, which he has accepted, the party so benefited is responsible on an implied promise, arising from the circumstances under the quantum meruit, to the extent of the net value received by him, not exceeding the contract price or compensation fixed by the special contract.””
1 later decision 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.