65 Wis. 2d 280 - Meyer v. Ludwig’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2019
16 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 Beatty v. . Guggenheim Exploration Co. · 58 Wis. 2d 290 - Richards v. Richards · Truelsch v. Miller · 51 Wis. 2d 466 - Hanson v. Valdivia · Masino v. Sechrest
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Where a person holding property transfers it to another in violation of his duty to a third person, the third person can reach the property in the hands of the transferee [by means of a constructive trust] unless the transferee is a bona fide purchaser.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘ “. . . a device in a court of equity to prevent unjust enrichment which arises from fraud or abuse of confidential relationship and is implied to accomplish justice . . .” ’ ” Meyer v. Ludwig, 65 Wis.2d 280, 285 , 222 N.W. 2d 679 (1974); Estate of Schmalz, 58 Wis.2d 220 , 206 N.W.2d 141 (1973) ; Estate of Massouras, 16 Wis.2d 304 , 114 N.W.2d 449 (1962).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The underlying principle of a constructive trust is the equitable prevention of unjust enrichment which arises from fraud or the abuse of a confidential relationship. 'A constructive trust arises if, but only if, it is shown that the transferee was guilty of fraud or the abuse of a confidential relationship, or if the transfer was made in contemplation of death, or is in the nature of a mortgage.' Scott on Trusts, vol. 3, § 481.3, 2358.”
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.