18 Misc. 2d 21 - House v. Schwartz’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2004
3 federal appellate · 2 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 Wakeman v. Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Co. · Miller v. . Schloss · Davis v. Illinois · Franklin Nat. Bank of Franklin Square v. New York · 31 Cal. 2d 139 - DeMille v. American Federation of Radio Artists
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.
“[C]ourts have historically prevented unjust enrichment by employing a legal fiction: common law courts used the term `quasi contract,' and courts of equity, `constructive trust.' The two are essentially the same ... in decreeing specific performance of a contract implied in law or quasi contract.”
2 later decisions 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.