Dawson v. Vasquez’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “A constructive trust will be erected whenever necessary to satisfy the demands of justice. Since a constructive trust is merely ‘the formula through which the conscience of equity finds expression’ ... its applicability is limited only by the inventiveness of men who find new ways to enrich themselves unjustly by grasping what should not belong to them. Nothing short of true and complete justice satisfies equity, and, always assuming these allegations to be true, there seems no way of achieving total justice except by the procedure used here.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Weizmann Institute of Science v. Neschis