171 Cal. App. 2d 703 - Clark v. Pullins’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2016
3 federal appellate · 6 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 3 Cal. 2d 427 - Crawford v. Southern Pacific Co. · Estate of Bristol v. Young · Berniker v. Berniker · Nichols v. Mitchell · Bainbridge v. Stoner
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] constructive trust may be imposed in practically any case where there is a wrongful acquisition or detention of property to which another is entitled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“constructive trust is imposed not because of the intention of the parties, but because the person holding the property would profit by his wrong.”
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.