Tromblay v. Dacres’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2014
10 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 Van Dyke v. Cole · Davidson v. Vaughn · Aldrich v. LINCOLN LAND CORPORATION · Mahoney v. Leddy · Jacobs v. Jewett
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of equitable mortgages does apply to agreements denominated as a “contract for a deed” or, in older usage, “bond for a deed.” ... Since the payments are applied to the purchase obligation as they accumulate, an equity, though perhaps small, comes into being. It is this interest that is referred to as the equitable mortgage interest that requires foreclosure ... To hold otherwise would render every lease containing a purchase option agreement creating an equitable mortgage situation from the time of notice of intention to exercise it ... This is not the principle behind the equitable mortgage concept. Rather, it rests on the principle of the accumulation of an equitable interest in the property that deserves recognition even without the execution of a formal mortgage instrument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The prospective purchaser occupies the premises and makes the payments until the point of delivery of the deed and execution of the mortgage is reached. Since the payments are applied to the purchase obligation as they accumulate, an equity, though perhaps small, comes into being. It is this interest that is referred to as the equitable mortgage interest that requires foreclosure. Aldrich v. Lincoln Land Corp., 130 Vt. 372 , 294 A.2d 853 (1972), See also Jacobs v. Jewett, 122 Vt. 5, 7 , 162 A.2d 925 (1960).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Tremblay
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.