Madfes v. Beverly Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1929
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently January 1983 · most notably City of Buffalo v. J. W. Clement Co. (1971), Town of Chino Valley v. City of Prescott (1981)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 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 Tifft v. . Horton · Ford v. . Cobb · McRea v. Central National Bank of Troy · Voorhees v. . McGinnis · Central Union Gas Co. v. . Browning
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If the goods are so affixed to realty at the time of a conditional sale or subsequently as to become part thereof but to be severable without material injury to the freehold, the reservation of property shall be void after the goods are so affixed as against subsequent purchasers of the realty for value and without notice of the conditional seller’s title, unless the conditional sale contract, or a copy thereof, together with a statement signed by the seller briefly describing the realty and stating that the goods are or are to be affixed thereto, shall be filed before such purchase in the office where a deed of the realty would be recorded or registered to affect such realty.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Albanese““It was the legislative purpose that a condition reserving title in the seller, to be found in a conditional sale contract, should no- longer have the effect of impressing upon articles, annexed to a building by the purchaser in such a manner as otherwise to- have become real estate, the continuing character of personal property. The provision in terms relates to none other than goods ‘so affixed to realty at the time of a conditional sale or subsequently as to become part thereof but to be severable without material injury to the freehold.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Albanese
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.