quasi contractual
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 300 U.S. 598 - Brown v. O'Keefe · 1937Most cited · 403 citing opinions
A liability upon quasi contract is one upon an 'implied contract.' The liability of a national bank shareholder, created though it is by statute, is quasi contractual in its origin and basis; it is an incident affixed by law to the contract of membership between shareholder and bank.
How often courts cite the case defining “quasi contractual”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “quasi contractual” — 403 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.