Easterling v. Ferris’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently June 2024 · most notably Panama Processes, S.A. v. Cities Service Co. (1990), State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass'n v. Taylor (2000)
7 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 Howe v. Martin · Peyton v. McCaslin · Cacy v. Cacy · Welch v. Montgomery · Berland's Inc. of Tulsa v. Northside Village Shopping Center, 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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by fraud, actual or constructive, by devices 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 obtained or holds the legal right to property which he ought not, in equity and good conscience, hold and enjoy.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]n element of unfairness in allowing the legal title holder to retain the property is not sufficient to justify the imposition of a constructive trust. There must also be some active wrongdoing on the part of the person against whom recovery is sought...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“clear, unequivocal and decisive beyond a reasonable doubt”
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.