Meier v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis

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3 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

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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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Where property, as here, has been acquired by fraud, equity, at the suit of injured parties, will impress a constructive trust upon such property in their favor and, in the event of a prior transfer by the wrongdoer, will trace the property, if possible, through whatever mutations and impress a trust thereon in the hands of a third person, unless he be a bona fide purchaser for value and without notice.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. The Rath Packing Company v. Paul Blood Farms, Inc. Paul Blood Gering National Bank, a Corporation Robert L. Kelley and Francis Kelley, the First National Bank of Morrill, Nebraska, a Corporation, and the Omaha National Bank, a Corporation. The Rath Packing Company v. Paul Blood Farms, Inc. Paul Blood Gering National Bank, a Corporation, Robert L. Kelley Francis Kelley the First National Bank of Morrill, Nebraska, a Corporation, and the Omaha National Bank, a Corporation. The Rath Packing Company v. Paul Blood Farms, Inc. Paul Blood Gering National Bank, a Corporation, Robert L. Kelley Francis Kelley the First National Bank of Morrill, Nebraska, a Corporation