Perkins v. Daugherty’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2017
2 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 Kellum v. Browning's Administrator · Thompson v. Hunter's Ex'r · Fayette Tobacco Warehouse Co. v. Lexington Tobacco Board of Trade
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.
“A contract implied by law allows for recovery quantum meruit for another’s unjust enrichment. It is not based upon a contract but a legal fiction invented to permit recovery where the law of natural justice says there should be a recovery as if promises were made. The courts supply the fiction of the promise to permit the recovery. Furthermore recovery quantum meruit may be had irrespective of the intentions of the parties, and sometimes even in violation of them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Kentucky courts recognize a contract implied in fact, `shown by evidence of facts and circumstances from which a meeting of the minds concerning the mutual promises may be reasonably adduced.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Tyson
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.