equitable tracing
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 268 U.S. 121 - United States v. Dunn · 1925Most cited · 144 citing opinions
The ward or the beneficiary of a trust may, at his option, follow the trust res fraudulently diverted until it reaches the hands of an innocent purchaser for value, or he may, at his option, claim the proceeds of the sale or other disposition of the trust res in the hands of him who fraudulently acquired it of the fiduciary.
How often courts cite the case defining “equitable tracing”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “equitable tracing” — 144 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.