Cohen v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 158 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 178 later decisions — most recently January 2024 · most notably Dunham v. Dunham (1987), Alaimo v. Royer (1982)
2 federal appellate · 8 district · 158 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 Cupp v. Naughten · Royal Netherlands Steamship Co. v. Strachan Shipping Co. · Goldstein v. United States · Beatty v. . Guggenheim Exploration Co. · Collens v. New Canaan Water 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 178 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive trust is the formula through which the conscience of equity finds expression. When property has been acquired in such circumstances that the holder of the legal title may not in good conscience retain the beneficial interest, equity converts him into a trustee.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Thus, a constructive trust arises where a person who holds title to property is subject to an equitable duty to convey it to another on the ground that he would be unjustly enriched if he were permitted to retain it.'”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“"When the purchase money for property is paid by one and the legal title is taken in the name of another, a resulting trust ordinarily arises at once by operation of law in favor of the one paying the money."”
5 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.