Welsh v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
July 1992
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Williams v. State · McLaughlin v. Barnum · Crawford v. Richards · Union Hall Ass'n v. Morrison · Broumel v. White
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Since the rule that erections or additions made by one who has no rights to land are fixtures, and therefore not removable by him, even though he made them in the belief that he was the owner of the land, is calculated to cause hardships to an innocent occupant of another’s land, by giving the benefit of his labor and expenditures to the landowner, the courts of this country, without either imputing fraud or requiring proof of it, hold it inequitable to allow one to be enriched under such circumstances by the labor and expenditures of another who acted in good faith and in ignorance of any adverse claim or title. Applying this doctrine of'unjust enrichment/ a court of equity will, on the principle that he who seeks equity must do equity, refuse its assistance to the rightful owner of the land as against an occupant thereof unless he makes compensation for permanent and beneficial improvements, made by the latter without notice of the defect in his title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The occupier of the land of another, in order to have the equitable doctrine apply, must have acted in good faith in making the improvements and must be ignorant of any adverse claim on the title. This requirement is not satisfied in situations in which the occupier of the land has actual knowledge of an adverse claim to the title or in which he had knowledge of facts which, as a reasonable man, would require him to investigate and discover such an adverse claim.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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