68 N.C. App. 588 - Collins v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 87 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 96 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 137 Wis. 2d 506 - Watts v. Watts (1987), 192 N.C. App. 74 - Bartlett Milling Co., LP v. Walnut Grove Auction and Realty Co., Inc. (2008)
2 federal appellate · 87 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 Rose v. Vulcan Materials Company · Mims v. Mims · Wright v. Wright · Branch Banking & Trust Company v. Gill · 51 N.C. App. 19 - Hawks v. Brindle
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 96 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of unjust enrichment was devised by equity to exact the return of, or payment for, benefits received under circumstances where it would be unfair for the recipient to retain them without the contributor being repaid or compensated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“entering into enforceable express or implied contracts for the purchase and improvement of houses, or for the loan and repayment of money.”
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.