Wilde v. Wilde’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
March 2018
most recently cited
Relationships
Relies on Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance v. Knudson · Beatty v. . Guggenheim Exploration Co. · Simonds v. Simonds · Miller v. . Schloss · Zurich Insurance v. Shearson Lehman Hutton, Inc.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] constructive trust may be imposed on property belonging to and traceable to the principal but possessed by the third party, where the third party 'may not in good conscience retain the beneficial interest.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“in view of equity's goal of softening where appropriate the harsh consequences of legal formalisms, in limited situations the tracing requirement may be relaxed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o the extent that a small part of these purchases is not traceable to the Citibank Accounts[.]”
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.