Cacy v. Cacy’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Reiss v. Hagmann (1989), United States Department of Energy v. Seneca Oil Co. (1990)
12 federal appellate · 18 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 Peyton v. McCaslin · Davis v. National Bank of Tulsa · McCaleb v. McKinley · Morris v. Leverett · Powell v. Chastain
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A constructive trust] is imposed 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.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“must be clear, unequivocal and decisive beyond a reasonable doubt.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The primary reason for imposing a constructive trust is to avoid unjust enrichment.”
3 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.