Lessing v. Gibbons’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 1987 · most notably 6 Cal. 3d 784 - Fracasse v. Brent (1972), 258 Cal. App. 2d 136 - Lysick v. Walcom (1968)
34 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 Cox v. McLaughlin · Anderson v. Eaton · Gray v. Bekins · Lawall v. Groman · Brown v. Crown Gold Milling Co.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is well settled that one who is wrongfully discharged and prevented from further performance of his contract may elect as a general rule to treat the contract as rescinded, may sue upon a quantum meruit as if the special contract of employment had never been made and may recover the reasonable value of the services performed even though such reasonable value exceeds the contract price.”
2 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.