93 Wash. 2d 249 - Heaton v. Imus’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 104 Wash. 2d 105 - Family Medical Building, Inc. v. Department of Social & Health Services (1985), 113 Wash. 2d 162 - Lynch v. Deaconess Medical Center (1989)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 16 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 65 Wash. 2d 817 - Bignold v. King County · 49 Wash. 2d 363 - Milone & Tucci, Inc. v. Bona Fide Builders, Inc. · 83 Ind. App. 488 - Western Oil Refining Co. v. Underwood · 34 Wash. 2d 645 - Bill v. Gattavara · 6 Wash. App. 74 - Dravo Corp. v. L. W. Moses Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A contract implied in fact is an agreement of the parties arrived at from their conduct rather than their expressions of assent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[q]uantum meruit is not a legal obligation like quasi contract, but is rather a remedy: `a reasonable amount for work done,'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`in equity and good conscience, [she] ought not to retain it.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Young v. Young
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.