18 N.J. Super. 307 - Sergi v. Carew’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 1999
7 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 Lawrence v. Springer · Veghte v. Raritan Water Power Co. · The Trenton Potteries Co. v. Blackwell · 31 N.J. Eq. 174 - Harris v. Johnson · State v. Bermann
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he primary concern in attempting to ascertain whether the conveyance[ ] ... constitute[s] a conveyance in fee or merely create[s] an easement is to attempt to ascertain the intention of the parties. In order to ascertain that intention, the court must consider the situation as it was at the time of the execution of the conveyance.”
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.