Caldwell v. Armstrong’s Empirical Analysis
342 F.2d 485 · 1965
Citation profile
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably Mary Lee Nichols v. Benton M. Hensler (1976), Hart v. Hart (In Re Hart) (1985)
16 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 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 Consolidated Edison Co. of New York v. United States · Union Transfer Co. v. United States · State of Texas v. State of New Jersey · United States v. Crescent Amusement Co. · Menick v. Hoffman
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An equitable lien is a creature of equity, is based on the equitable doctrine of unjust enrichment, and is the right to have a fund or specific property applied to the payment of a particular debt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The trend of modern decisions is to hold that in the absence of an express contract, a lien based upon the fundamental maxims of equity may be implied and declared by a court of equity out of general considerations of right and justice as applied to the relationship of the parties and the circumstances of their dealing”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“no subsequent lien obtainable by legal or equitable proceedings on a simple contract could become superior to her rights.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.