Chiu v. Wong’s Empirical Analysis
16 F.3d 306 · 1994
Citation profile
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably Dameron Old Republic National Title Insurance Company v. O Tyler S, First Western Bank & Trust v. Drewes (1997)
13 federal appellate · 2 district ·
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
Applies 11 U.S.C. § 541
Relies on Butner v. United States · Reavis v. Antinore · Ns Garrott Sons Ns Garrott Sons v. Union Planters National Bank of Memphis & Ns Garrott & Sons Ns Garrott & Sons · Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. v. Flight Transportation Corp. · Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Universal Insurance Company, Hector Manuel Rodriguez-Estrada, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Universal Insurance Company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company v. Universal Insurance Company
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive trust may be imposed only when there is some specific property identified as belonging, in equity and conscience, to the plaintiff.... A constructive trust does not arise unless there is property on which the trust can be fastened, and the property is held by the person to be charged as constructive trustee.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“State law governs the resolution of property rights within a bankruptcy proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.