Bowden v. Grindle’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2024
2 district · 17 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 City of Auburn v. Mandarelli · Aladdin Electric Associates v. Town of Old Orchard Beach · A.F.A.B., Inc. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach · Morris v. Resolution Trust Corp. · A.F.A.B., Inc. v. Town of Old Orchard Beach
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) services ... rendered to the defendant by the plaintiff; (2) -with the knowledge and consent of the defendant; and (3) under circumstances that make it reasonable for the plaintiff to expect payment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Cannell“as much as deserved” and describes the extent of liability on a contract implied by law or”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Paffhausen v. Balano
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.