Straight v. Goss’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Precision Instrument Mfg Co v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co · SSI Medical Services, Inc. v. Cox · ML-Lee Acquisition Fund, L.P. v. Deloitte · Gaudiosi v. Mellon · First Union Nat. Bank of SC v. Soden
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his court may find facts in accordance with our own view of the preponderance of the evidence. However, we are not required to disregard the findings of the trial judge who saw and heard the witnesses and was in a better position to judge their credibility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In an action at equity, tried by a judge alone, an appellate court may find facts in accordance with its own view of the preponderance of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In general, a constructive trust may be imposed when a party obtains a benefit which does not equitably belong to him and which he cannot in good conscience retain or withhold from another who is beneficially entitled to it as where money has been paid by accident, mistake of fact, or fraud, or has been acquired through a breach of trust or the violation of a fiduciary duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gordon v. Busbee
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.