Spector v. Konover’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2025 · most notably Noble v. White (2001), 97 Conn. App. 541 - Suffield Development Associates Ltd. Partnership v. National Loan Investors, L.P. (2006)
2 district · 52 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 Napoletano v. CIGNA Healthcare of Connecticut, Inc. · Fink v. Golenbock · Konover Development Corp. v. Zeller · State v. Hodge · State v. King
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] constructive trust arises contrary to intention and in invitum, against one who, by fraud, actual or constructive, by duress or abuse of confidence, by commission of wrong, or by any form of unconscionable conduct, artifice, concealment, or questionable means, or who in any way against equity and good conscience, either has obtained or holds the legal right to property which he ought not, in equity and good conscience, hold and enjoy. . . . Moreover, the party sought to be held liable for a constructive trust must have engaged in conduct that wrongfully harmed the plaintiff. (Citations omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Wendell Corp. Trustee v. Thurston, 239 Conn. 109 , 113-14 , 680 A.2d 1314 (1996).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t is a thoroughly well-settled equitable rule that any one acting in a fiduciary relation shall not be permitted to make use of that relation to benefit his own personal interest. This rule is strict in its requirements and in its operation. It extends to all transactions where the individual's personal interests may be brought into conflict with his acts in the fiduciary capacity, and it works independently of the question whether there was fraud or whether there was good intention.... The rule applies alike to agents, partners , guardians, executors and administrators.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In this case, there is no evidence to substantiate a finding that the defendant's actions placed him in direct competition with the interests of the corporation or that he”
2 later decisions 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.