Beecher v. Stratton Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Mellin v. Flood Brook Union School District (2001), Kaplan v. MORGAN STANLEY & CO., INC. (2009)
2 district · 23 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 Smith v. American President Lines, Ltd. · 102 N.J. Eq. 517 - Howard v. West Jersey, C., R.R. Co. · Stewart v. RCA Corp. · School District of City of Allentown v. Marshall · Poplaski v. Lamphere
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“first, the party to be estopped must know the facts; second, the party being estopped must intend that his conduct shall be acted upon or the acts must be such that the party asserting the estop-pel has a right to believe it is so intended; third, the latter must be ignorant of the true facts; and finally, the party asserting the estoppel must rely on the conduct of the party to be estopped to his detriment.”
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.