Ravitz v. Chirelstein’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2012
7 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 Atlantic City Sewerage Co. v. Board of Public Utility Commissioners · 121 N.J. Eq. 85 - Trenton Banking Co. v. Howard · Lynch v. Public Service Railway Co. · Scanlon v. Anderson · Zona v. Erie Railroad
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While evidence in a given case may stand uncontradicted by other evidence, it may yet be controverted in the sense that its trustworthiness is challenged and the subject-matter is not admitted; and, ordinarily, the weight of the evidence, even though uncontradicted, is determinable by the triers of the facts and not by the court as a matter of law____ [Id. at 6-7,49 A.2d 485 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But the inquiry as to the value of services is one that calls for the exercise of a fair judgment grounded in all the facts and circumstances, and informed by the opinions adduced from those having special knowledge of the subject.”
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.