Roper v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Columbia Gas Systems Inc (1993), 128 N.C. App. 178 - Weatherford v. Keenan (1997)
55 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 Wilson v. Crab Orchard Development Company · Crockett v. FIRST FEDERAL S. & L. ASS'N, ETC. · Crockett v. First Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n of Charlotte · Colwell Electric Co. v. Kale-Barnwell Realty & Construction Co. · Speight v. Branch Banking & Trust Co.
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] constructive trust is ‘ . . . imposed by courts of equity to prevent the unjust enrichment of the holder of title to, or of an interest in, property which such holder acquired through fraud, breach of duty or some other circumstance making it inequitable for him to retain it against the claim of the beneficiary of the constructive trust.’”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“A constructive trust is imposed “to prevent the unjust enrichment of the holder of title to, or of an interest in, property which such holder acquired through fraud, breach of duty or some other circumstance making it inequitable for him to retain it against the claim of the beneficiary of the constructive trust. ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Inequitable conduct short of actual fraud will give rise to a constructive trust where retention of the property by the holder of the legal title would result in his unjust enrichment. Fraud need not be shown if legal title has been obtained in violation of some duty owed to the one equitably entitled.”
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.