Elterman v. . Hyman’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 95 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Rabouin v. National Labor Relations Board (1952), Epstein v. . Gluckin (1922)
5 federal appellate · 4 district · 95 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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.
Appellate journey
reviewedElterman v. Hyman
Relationships
Relies on Chase v. . Peck · Gibert v. . Peteler · Ahrend v. Odiorne · City of Buffalo v. Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad · Bullitt v. Eastern Kentucky Land 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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question remains whether a vendee, not in possession and with no special equity, has a lien for the amount paid on a contract for the purchase of land that can be foreclosed upon the default of the vendor. * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We find no well considered case in any state that denies a lien to the vendee even if payment is the only ground therefor, except such as withhold a lien from the vendor also.”
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.