Equity Corp. v. Groves’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2004 · most notably In Re: First Central Financial Corporation (2004), Burg v. Horn (1967)
11 federal appellate · 11 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 · Beatty v. . Guggenheim Exploration Co. · Holmes v. . Gilman · Wood v. . Rabe · Lightfoot v. . Davis
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive trust ... is analogous to a `quasi-contractual obligation' and indeed the subject is treated by the American Law Institute in a separate restatement in connection with the subject of Quasi Contracts rather than in connection with the Restatement of the Law of Trusts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]n some cases stockholders who dominate and control a corporation[ ] occupy a position of partial trust.” Equity Corp. v. Groves, 294 N.Y. 8 , 60 N.E.2d 19, 21 (1945). As a result,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Nasso v. Seagal
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.