Bruner v. Bearden’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently April 1955
10 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 Kirkpatrick v. McElroy · Arthur Fritsch Foundry & Machine Co. v. Goodwin Manufacturing Co. · Buddress v. Schafer · Rossman v. Tilleny · New Harmony Lodge No. 71 v. Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad
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.
““It follows that a plaintiff who sues-upon an express contract, without adding a count upon a quantum meruit, waives nothing, and, if defeated, is not thereby barred from maintaining a subsequent action upon an agreement arising by implication of law.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dudley v. King
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.