119 Ohio App. 3d 308 - Dixon v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Estate of Cowling v. Estate of Cowling (2006), 155 Ohio App. 3d 218 - Cooper v. Smith (2003)
31 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 C. E. Morris Co. v. Foley Construction Co. · Hambleton v. R.G. Barry Corp. · 75 Ohio App. 3d 732 - Henkle v. Henkle · 133 Ohio St. 520 - Hummel v. Hummel · Ferguson v. Owens
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) a benefit conferred by a plaintiff upon a defendant; (2) knowledge by the defendant of the benefit; and (3) retention of the benefit by the defendant under circumstances where it would be unjust to do so without payment ('unjust enrichment').”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when a party retains money or benefits which in justice and equity belong to another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A constructive trust is not a right to recover on a debt owing; it creates a right to recover property wrongfully held. Staley v. Kreinbihl (1949), 152 Ohio St. 315 , 40 O.O. 361 , 89 N.E.2d 593 . Therefore, a trust will follow property through all changes in its state and form so long as such property, its product, or its proceeds are capable of identification. 91 Ohio Jurisprudence 3d (1989), Trusts, Section 270. Because identification is crucial to permit recovery of the wrongfully held property, tracing is fundamental to a constructive trust.”
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.