Cooper v. Gilder’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
January 2016
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 753 So. 2d 1057 - McNeil v. Hester · Sojourner v. Sojourner · 932 So. 2d 27 - White v. Stewman · Smith v. HC Bailey Companies · 882 So. 2d 229 - Brooks v. Roberts
Most-quoted passages
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“A constructive trust is a fiction of' equity created for the purpose of preventing unjust enrichment by one who holds legal title to property which, under principles of justice and fairness, rightfully belongs to another. This Court has defined a constructive trust as follows: A constructive trust is one that arises by operation of law against one who, by fraud, actual or constructive, by duress or abuse of confidence, by commission of wrong, or by any form of unconscionable conduct, artifice, concealment, or questionable means, or who in any way against equity and good conscience, either has obtained or holds the legal right to property which he ought not, in equity and good conscience, hold and enjoy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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