Schultz v. Schultz’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2019
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 Murphy v. Carron · Suhre v. Busch · In Re Estate of LaGarce · In Re Petersen's Estate · Wantuck v. United Savings and Loan Association
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Constructive trusts are technically not trusts at all, but rather, are equitable devices employed by courts of equity to remedy a situation where a party has been wrongfully deprived of some right, title, benefit, or interest in property as a result of fraud or violation of confidence or faith reposed in another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Champ v. Poelker“Technically, constructive trusts are not trusts at all but equitable devices employed by courts . . . 'regardless and independently of any actual or presumed intention of the parties to create a trust.'”
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.