Williams v. Grogan’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2018
17 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 92 So. 2d 629 - Wadlington v. Edwards · Benbow v. Benbow · Seestedt v. Southern Laundry, Inc. · Hutner, Et Ux. v. Davis
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he rule is well established in Florida and elsewhere to the effect that when a person acquires title to property through influence of a confidential relationship or otherwise obtains advantage in which he should not in good conscience be permitted to retain, a court of equity will prevent the abuse of the confidence and grant relief on the broad principle that one should not be permitted to be unjustly enriched under such circumstances at the expense of another.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A trust which is created by operation of law is not within the statute of frauds and may be proved by parol evidence.”
2 later decisions 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.