Stevens v. Thacker’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 14 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2020
1 federal appellate · 14 district ·
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 Conley v. Gibson · Angie Chesser v. Amos Sparks · Langadinos v. American Airlines, Inc. · Hamer v. . Sidway · 83 F. Supp. 2d 204 - Nollet v. Justices of the Trial Court of Massachusetts
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.
“1) a benefit conferred on the Defendant by the Plaintiff; 2) an appreciation or knowledge of the benefit by the Defendant; 3) the acceptance or retention of the benefit by the Defendant under circumstances which make acceptance or retention inequitable.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“exist[s] to supplement those available at law and not to contradict the judgments embodied in the statutes and the common law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“A constructive trust is, of course, a remedy rather than a cause of action”
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.