Holzmeyer v. Van Doren’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently August 2019
12 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 81 N.J. Eq. 359 - Institute Building & Loan Ass'n v. Edwards · Campbell v. Carter · Pearce v. Buell · Katz v. Obenchain · Welch v. Johnson
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All men may make mistakes, and the law would lose much of the respect which is now accorded to it if it compelled a man to persist in his mistakes when he can be relieved therefrom without injuring the interests of anyone. By relieving the plaintiff of the mistake which he made, the appellant’s condition is made no worse; he is not entitled to have it made better through an unfortunate mistake made by the plaintiff.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Mistakes are induced by varying degrees of carelessness, but when they have not prejudiced anyone, a greater margin of carelessness can be tolerated than under other circumstances.” 4 . Farstad specifically relies upon §§ 47-19-19, 47-19-41, and 47-19-45, N.D.C.C., which provide: “47-19-19. Effect of recording. — The record of any instrument shall be notice of the contents of the instrument, as it appears of record, as to all persons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a considerable degree of carelessness can be tolerated.”
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.