Cave v. Cave’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably Orchard Container Corp. v. Orchard (1980), Wyrozynski v. Nichols (1988)
27 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 Murphy v. Carron · White v. Mulvania · Roth v. Roth · Wilhoit v. Fite · Fix v. Fix Material Co., 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A constructive trust does not arise as a result of an agreement... of the parties, but is implied by law and is a method of the law of equity to rectify a situation where a party has been wrongfully deprived of some right, title or benefit in property as a result of ... violation of confidence by another.””
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.