Devlin v. Surgent’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently July 1992 · most notably Oswin v. Shaw (1992), Viviano v. CBS, INC. (1986)
41 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 Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield · 124 N.J. Eq. 403 - Sears, Roebuck Co. v. Camp · Anderson v. Modica · 17 N.J. Super. 20 - Tumarkin v. Friedman · Handelman v. Handelman
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to facilitate the granting of justice and to bring about an impartial and expeditious determination of the essential merits of the issues between the parties.”
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.