69 Md. App. 566 - Hamilton v. Caplan’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
2 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently February 2015
2 district · 20 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 Breen v. Phelps · State v. Frye · Milholland v. Whalen · Wimmer v. Wimmer · Springer v. Springer
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A constructive remedy is a remedy employed by the courts to convert the holder of legal title to property into a trustee ‘for one who in good conscience should reap the benefits of the possession of said property.’ The remedy is applied where property has been acquired by fraud, misrepresentation, or other improper method, or where the circumstances render it inequitable for the title holder to retain the property. The purpose of imposing a constructive trust is to prevent the unjust enrichment of the holder.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“" 'The word "claims,” as used in non-claim statutes, has been construed to mean debts or demands of a pecuniary nature that could have been enforced against the deceased in his lifetime and could have been reduced to a simple money judgment.’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To be valid, a constructive delivery must not only be accompanied by words sufficient to show a donative intent, but must be of such a character as to completely divest the donor of dominion and control over the donation and to place it “wholly under the donee’s power.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dulany v. Taylor
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.