Simmons v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently May 2004 · most notably Fitz-Gerald v. Hull (1951), Womack v. Berry (1956)
30 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 Meinhard v. Salmon · Watkins v. Junker · Veal v. Thomason · Slay v. Burnett Trust · Joseph Parker Camp v. Kate Willard Boyd
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is a well settled general rule that if one person obtains the legal title to property, not only by fraud, or by violation of confidence or fiduciary relations, but in any other unconscientious manner, so that he cannot equitably retain the property which really belongs to another, equity carries out its theory of a double ownership, equitable and legal, by impressing a constructive trust upon the property in favor of the one who is in good conscience entitled to it, and who is considered in equity as the beneficial owner.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to compensate an aggrieved party for the detention of money rightfully due him.”
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.