Bennett v. Westfall’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
4 district · 20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably G.E. Capital Mortgage Services, Inc. v. Levenson (1995), Bank of America, NA v. Prestance Corp. (2007)
4 district · 20 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 Brenner v. Plitt · 81 N.J. Eq. 359 - Institute Building & Loan Ass'n v. Edwards · Sherwood Co. v. Sherwood Distilling Co. · Holt v. Mitchell · International Trust Co. v. Davis & Farnum Manufacturing Co.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[That] position is: You made a mistake, it did me no harm; in fact, resulted in greatly benefiting me. Therefore, you cannot have your mistake corrected. This position has no appeal to a court of equity.””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a different person from whom the debtor borrowed the money to pay off the old mortgage.” The security interest was to be given to First Union, the very”
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.