630 So. 2d 461 - Sledge v. Sledge’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2017
2 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 Blankenship v. Blankenship · Jordan v. Jordan · 531 So. 2d 668 - Shepherd v. Shepherd · 597 So. 2d 699 - Johnson v. Johnson · Coupounas v. Morad
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A constructive trust is a creature of equity that operates to prevent unjust enrichment; such a trust will be imposed when a property interest has either been acquired by fraud or where, in the absence of fraud, it would be inequitable to allow the property interest to be retained by the person who holds it.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In re LaForce · In Re Poffenbarger“Equity may also impress a constructive trust on property in favor of one beneficially entitled thereto against a person, who, against the rules of equity and against good conscience, in any way either has obtained or holds and enjoins legal title to property that in justice that person ought not to hold and enjoy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Poffenbarger
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.