DeVito v. Sheeran’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 1361
Relies on Formosa Plastics Corp. USA v. Presidio Engineers and Contractors, Inc. · State v. Morton · Sunrise Development, Inc. v. Zoning Board of Adjustment · Worrell v. Multipress, Inc. · Burns v. Gould
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the declarant must be dead; (2) the statement must have been made in good faith; (3) the statement must have been made upon the declarant’s own personal knowledge; and (4) there must be a probability from the circumstances that the statement is trustworthy. [DeVito v. Sheeran, 165 N.J. 167, 194 , 755 A.2d 1147 (2000).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“signed by the party against whom enforcement is *Page 605 sought . . . sufficient to indicate that a contract has been made for sale of a stated quantity of described securities at a defined or stated price.”
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.