Mott v. Iossa’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 1987
2 federal appellate · 19 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 114 N.J. Eq. 391 - Bankers Trust Co. v. Bank of Rockville Center Trust Co. · Condit v. Bigalow · Mayor of Paterson v. East Jersey Water Co. · Massie v. Asbestos Brake Co. · Pearce v. Stines
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When complainant comes into Chancery, not to establish and enforce an equitable right but to aid in the enforcement of a legal right, delay will not ordinarily or in the absence of special equities, bar equitable relief unless it has continued long enough to bar the legal right. Burne v. Partridge, 61 N.J. Eq. 434 ; Condit v. Bigalow, 64 N.J. Eq. 504 , 514 ; Paterson v. East Jersey Water Co., 74 N.J. Eq. 49 , 97 ; affirmed, 77 N.J. Eq. 588 ; Massie v. Asbestos Brake Co., 95 N.J. Eq. 298 , 311 ; 96 N.J. Eq. 612 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hague v. Warren
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.