General Insulation Co. v. Eckman Construction’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 15 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Paffhausen v. Balano · Piper v. Boston & Maine Railroad · Chagnon v. Union-Leader Corp. · Kowalski v. Cedars of Portsmouth Condominium Ass'n · Hanchett v. Brezner Tanning Co.
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A plaintiff is entitled to restitution for unjust enrichment if the defendant received a benefit and it would be unconscionable for the defendant to retain that benefit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[U]njust enrichment generally does not form an independent basis for a cause of action.”
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.