Simpson v. Dailey’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 23 Conn. App. 58 - Richard v. Richard (1990), United Lending Corp. v. City of Providence (2003)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 39 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 Matarese v. Calise · Hamrick v. Yellow Cab Company of Providence · Proffitt v. Ricci · Desnoyers v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · Young v. Coca-Cola Bottling Company
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he court may consider a variety of factors, including the reliance of one party upon the other, the relationship of the parties prior to the incidents complained of, the relative business capacities or lack thereof between the parties, and the readiness of one party to follow the other's guidance in complicated transactions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The underlying principle of a constructive trust is the equitable prevention of unjust enrichment of one party at the expense of another in situations in which legal title to property was obtained ... in violation of a fiduciary or confidential relationship....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawton“A constructive trust will be imposed upon property that is obtained in violation of a fiduciary duty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lawton
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.