Legault v. Legault’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2021 · most notably Dj Painting, Inc. v. Baraw Enterprises, Inc. (2001), In re Relafen Antitrust Litigation (2004)
2 federal appellate · 4 district · 27 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 Board of Highway Commissioners v. City of Bloomington · Peyton v. William C. Peyton Corp. · Springer v. Springer · Wells v. Village of Orleans, Inc. · Ball v. State of New York
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he equitable doctrine of unjust enrichment rests upon the principle that a man shall not be allowed to enrich himself unjustly at the expense of another. In other words, the inquiry is whether, in light of the totality of circumstances, it is against equity and good conscience to allow [a party] to retain what is sought to be recovered. Thus, whether there is unjust enrichment may not be determined from a limited inquiry confined to an isolated transaction. It must be a realistic determination based on a broad view of the human setting involved.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Weed v. Weed
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.