Schock v. Nash’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Brehm v. Eisner (2000), Ryan v. Gifford (2007)
2 federal appellate · 5 district · 36 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 Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · King v. Bankerd · Leather Manufacturers' Bank v. Morgan · Levitt v. Bouvier · Leather Manuf'Rs' Nat Bank v. Morgan
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' [Fleer Corp. v. Topps Chewing Gum, Inc. , 539 A.2d 1060 , 1062 (Del. 1988) (quoting 66 Am.Jur.2d Restitution and Implied Contracts § 3, p. 945 (1973)).] To obtain restitution, the plaintiffs were required to show that the defendants were unjustly enriched, that the defendants secured a benefit, and that it would be unconscionable to allow them to retain that benefit. [Id. at 1063.] Restitution is permitted even when the defendant retaining the benefit is not a wrongdoer. [Id.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether or not an equitable remedy exists or is applied using the correct standards is an issue of law and reviewed de novo.”) 7 .Copeland v. Jackson, 683 A.2d 58 , 1996 WL 526163 , * , 1996 Del. Lexis 314, (Del. 1996) (Order) (Berger, J.) (quoting Edgell v. Divver, 402 A.2d 395, 397 (Del.Ch. 1979)). See Hackendorn v. Mahan, 24 Del.Ch. 228, 234 , 8 A.2d 794, 797 (Del.Ch. 1939) (quoting Reiver v. Voshelt, 18 Del.Ch. 260 , 158 A. 366 (Del.Ch. 1932)) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`Restitution serves to "deprive the defendant of benefits that in equity and good conscience he ought not to keep, even though he may have received those benefits honestly in the first instance, and even though the plaintiff may have suffered no demonstrable losses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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