Crane v. Loomis’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Kilduff v. Adams, Inc. (1991), 2830 Whitney Avenue Corp. v. Heritage Canal Development Associates, Inc. (1994)
32 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 Ferguson v. Sabo · Hoey v. Investors' Mortgage & Guaranty Co. · City Lumber Co. of Bridgeport, Inc. v. Murphy · Meriden Savings Bank v. Sujdak
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nevertheless, courts will recognize instances where the effect of the judgment may be collaterally attacked. Courts of equity may grant relief from the operation of a judgment when to enforce it would be unconscionable . . . or when a party can establish facts tending to show fraud, accident or mistake in connection with the entry of the original judgment of foreclosure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If such facts were established they might be ground for an independent action in equity for relief.”
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.