Brown v. Home Development Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably 42 N.J. Super. 332 - Jardine Estates, Inc. v. Donna Brook Corp. (1956), Mid-Jersey National Bank v. Fidelity-Mortgage Investors (1975)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 24 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 John Agnew Co. v. Board of Education · John Agnew Co. v. Board of Education · Hoover Steel Ball Co. v. Schaefer Ball Bearing Co. · 114 N.J. Eq. 276 - St. Michael's v. Conneen Constr. · 103 N.J. Eq. 262 - West Jersey, C., Hospital v. Gibbs
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Unless a case be found which is a conclusive authority establishing a precedent, the safest way for a court of law or equity is to decide all questions pertaining to interest according to the plainest and simplest considerations of justice and fair dealing * * * . It should be borne in mind that the whole tendency of courts of law and courts of equity for a considerable period of time has been to break away from hard and fast rules and charge and allow interest in accordance with principles of equity, in order to accomplish justice in each particular case.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At common law it has been said, there were no circumstances under which interest could be claimed as a matter of right. According to the modern view, however, there are many circumstances when interest "goes with the principal as the fruit with the tree." Interest should be allowed where the conduct of a party merits its allowance against him as for some misconduct, breach of trust, or dereliction of duty, or where the person retains funds belonging to another actually making interest thereon. [Emphasis supplied].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a stop notice operates as an assignment Pro Tanto of the money due the contractor .... [and the] rights of the stop notice claimant therefore can rise no higher than the rights of the general contractor, unless the owner has acted in violation of his duty [under] N.J.S.A. 2A:44-85 [not to pay the contractor in advance or for the purpose of defeating a lien].”
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.