implied contracts
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 69 U.S. 450 - Steamship Company v. Joliffe · 1864Most cited · 260 citing opinions
In that large class of transactions designated in the law as implied contracts, the assent or convention which is an essential ingredient of an actual contract is often wanting.
How often courts cite the case defining “implied contracts”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “implied contracts” — 260 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.