Robertson v. Hackensack Trust Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Germann v. Matriss (1970), State v. Branch (2005)
2 district · 37 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 Funk v. United States · Hunter v. State of New Jersey · 24 N.J. Misc. 279 - In re Petagno · 14 N.J. Eq. 240 - Speer v. Speer · Kelly v. Pitney
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the very least, we may safely adopt the Massachusetts rule, encompassing as it does all necessary safeguards required for the reception of evidence of this type.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.