Ledden v. Ehnes’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
2 district · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2015
2 district · 14 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 122 N.J. Eq. 518 - Montclair Savings Bank v. Sylvester · Alderman v. Diament · Sweeney v. Miner · 110 N.J. Eq. 361 - Henion v. Monahan · Lapp v. Belvedere
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The conceded fact is that Ledden was not served with process in the foreclosure proceeding. He was therefore not a party to the foreclosure and any disability against questioning that judgment arises not by reason of his being considered as a party in fact but by taking away from Ledden the right to claim that what appears of record is not the fact. Primarily this is to protect the rights and equities of those third persons who have become involved in good faith and as to whom it would be inequitable to permit a successful attack upon the foreclosure sale after all these years of knowledge by Ledden and inaction. Moreover, on this same basis, it also serves to protect the mortgagee and its assigns who have changed their position substantially in reliance upon the record.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... The statute [ N.J.S.A. 2A:50-2] is positive in its terms and no amount of interpretation can read in anything other than a clear expression of a procedural mandate. Since Ledden had not "been made a party in the proceeding [action] to foreclose the mortgage" the statute says "no action shall be instituted." The action leading to the deficiency judgment was improper at the time it was taken and is now out of time. [ 22 N.J. at 509 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... I think that these judgments entered upon bonds and warrants of attorneys should, upon proper application, be very readily and widely opened, for the method in which they are entered is the loosest way of binding a man's property that ever was devised in any civilized country. [at 198]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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