Knox v. Knox’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Peine v. Murphy (1962), First National Bank of St. Paul v. Ramier (1981)
5 federal appellate · 6 district · 54 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 Ranum v. Swenson · Lufkin v. Jakeman · Kaehler v. Kaehler · Bend v. Marsh · Randall v. Constans
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court of equity, in decreeing a constructive trust, is bound by no unyielding formula, but is free to effect justice according to the equities peculiar to each transaction wherever a failure to perform a duty to convey would result in unjust enrichment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““* * * [W]here a party obtains the legal title to land by fraud or bad faith, or by taking advantage of confidential or fiduciary relations, or in any other unconscientious manner, so that he cannot justly retain the property, equity will impress a constructive trust upon it in favor of the party who is equitably entitled to it.” (Italics supplied.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]here a person holding 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 * * *.”
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.