Davies v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably American Towers Owners Ass'n v. CCI Mechanical, Inc. (1996), 155 Md. App. 415 - Alternatives Unlimited, Inc. v. New Baltimore City Board of School Commissioners (2004)
1 federal appellate · 5 district · 35 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 State v. Walker · Nelson v. Jacobsen · 66 N.C. App. 641 - Ellis Jones, Inc. v. Western Waterproofing Co. · Interform Co. v. Mitchell · Sugarhouse Finance Co. v. Anderson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[rle-covery under quantum meruit presupposes that no enforceable written or oral contract exists.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) the defendant requested the plaintiff to perform the work; (2) the plaintiff expected the defendant to compensate him or her for those services; and (8) the defendant knew or should have known that the plaintiff expected compensation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) [The defendant received a benefit; (2) an appreciation or knowledge by the defendant of the benefit; (8) under cireumstances that would make it unjust for the defendant to retain the benefit without paying for it.”
3 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.