Hans v. Hans’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably County Commissioners v. J. Roland Dashiell & Sons, Inc. (2000), 498 So. 2d 809 - Norris v. Norris (1986)
1 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 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 Sojourner v. Sojourner · Johnson v. Black · 473 So. 2d 416 - Allgood v. Allgood · Continental Oil Company v. Walker · Martin v. Adams, Et Ux.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of unjust enrichment or recovery in quasi contract applies to situations where there is no legal contract but where the person sought to be charged is in possession of money or property which in good conscience and justice he should not retain but should deliver to another, the courts imposing a duty to refund the money or the use value of the property to the person to whom in good conscience it ought to belong.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is a rule of almost universal application that questions of whatever nature not raised in the trial court and preserved for review will not be noticed on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“view the obvious and see whether a resulting or constructive trust may be implied under the facts of this case.”
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.