Coombs v. Minor’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
June 1948
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re Estate of Cover · Newport v. Hatton · Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington · Cox v. Schnerr · Steinberger v. Steinberger
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.
“An action for money had and received 'may be successfully maintained even though not founded upon allegations showing an express privity of contract between the parties. This is so upon the theory that one of the parties has received money due and owing under the circumstances which make it his duty to surrender the money to the rightful owner, the law will imply the promise to do so, and thereby create the requisite contractual privity.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stiller v. Rogers
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