109 Ohio App. 3d 349 - Patterson v. Blanton’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2021
19 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 5 Ohio St. 3d 41 - State ex rel. Evans v. Bainbridge Township Trustees · 81 Ohio App. 3d 42 - Marinaro v. Major Indoor Soccer League · 16 Ohio App. 3d 1 - Lyle v. Durham · 65 Ohio App. 3d 728 - McIntire v. Raukhorst · 24 Ohio App. 3d 207 - Wion v. Henderson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although some courts have predicated recovery of property transferred in contemplation of marriage on a theory of fraudulent representations, we think the better view permits recovery based on the equitable principle of unjust enrichment. K* ‡ ‡ # [A] promise to marry partakes of a contract which is revocable by either party at will. When one party exercises this right to terminate the agreement, he or she should restore the other party to his or her original position with respect to property transferred in contemplation of fulfillment of the promise to marry. Requiring fulfillment of such equitable duty to restore the other party to the preagreement position does not constitute an award of damages for breach of promise to marry but is an order for restitution of property to which the reneging party no longer has a right, having relinquished it by exercising the statutory prerogative to terminate the promise to marry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Wilson“`he who seeks equity must come with clean hands.' `Equity is based upon what is perceived as just under the circumstances of each case and, when both parties are guilty of injustice, a court of equity will leave them as they are.'”
1 later decision 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.