Boretz v. Segar’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
4 district · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently January 2002 · most notably Collens v. New Canaan Water Co. (1967), Bauer v. Waste Management of Connecticut, Inc. (1996)
4 district · 80 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 Petterson v. Weinstock · Lyman v. Lyman · Gest v. Gest · LaFrance v. LaFrance
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under this maxim, any wilful act in regard to the matter in litigation, which would be condemned and pronounced wrongful by honest and fair-minded men, will be sufficient to make the hands of the applicant unclean.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the mortgagor is prevented by accident, mistake or fraud, from fulfilling a condition of the mortgage, foreclosure cannot be had.”
2 later decisions 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.