Mazzotta v. Bornstein’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably Campbell v. Rockefeller (1948), Ruscito v. F-Dyne Electronics Co. (1979)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 27 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 In re Curtis & Castle Arbitration · Jordan, Marsh & Co. v. Patterson · C. W. Hunt Co. v. Boston Elevated Railway Co. · Richard Deeves & Son v. Manhattan Life Insurance · Cohn v. Norton
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When it is said that time is of the essence, the proper meaning of the phrase is that the performance by one party at the time specified in the contract or within the period specified in the contract is essential in order to enable him to require performance from the other party.”
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.