Thompson v. Nesheim’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently July 2009 · most notably First National Bank of St. Paul v. Ramier (1981), Chiu v. Wong (1994)
4 federal appellate · 6 district · 16 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 Hayes v. O'Brien · Knox v. Knox · Butcher v. Bloom · Georgopolis v. George · Hafner v. Hafner
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is ... a well-established doctrine that where one person misappropriates property of another and converts it into another species of property, the defrauded party can assert equitable rights in the traceable product, unless the rights of a bona fide purchaser without notice have intervened.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“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.”
1 later decision 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 ....”
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.