Van Auken v. Tyrrell’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
2 district · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Ravitch v. Stollman Poultry Farms, Inc. (1973), Zack v. Guzauskas (1976)
2 district · 35 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 Ward v. Ward · Fox v. Shanley · Millard v. Green · Andrews v. New Britain National Bank · Ward v. Ives
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive trust arises `when the legal title to property is obtained by a person in violation, express or implied, of some duty owed to the one who is equitably entitled. . . .' 3 Pomeroy, Eq.Jur. (4th Ed.) p. 2370.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[the] essential allegations [of the plaintiffs complaint] set forth a cause of action for the breach of a constructive trust . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A constructive trust arises whenever another's property has been wrongfully appropriated and converted into a different form.”
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.