Trujillo v. Chavez’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2013 · most notably Kistler v. Halsey (1971), Smith v. FDC Corp. (1990)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 38 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 Baros v. Kazmierczwk · Silva v. Waldie · State Ex Rel. Gary v. Fireman's Fund Indemnity Co. · 8 Cal. 2d 532 - Peccolo v. City of Los Angeles · Mills v. Southwest Builders, Inc.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe it to be elementary law that when parties by conduct manifest an intention that one is to perform a certain thing and the other is to compensate him therefor, a contract is implied in fact.”
1 later decision 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.