Burke v. Hoffman’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 1997
15 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 Cogan v. Conover Manufacturing Co. · Bank of Harlem v. City of Bayonne · Terney v. Wilson · 107 N.J. Eq. 32 - Structural Gypsum Corp. v. National, C., Co. · 30 N.J. Eq. 171 - Bower v. Hadden Blue Stone 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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A mortgage debt, although a chose in action is yet, where the subject of the security is land, ‘an interest in land,’ and priorities are governed by the rules applicable to interests in land, and not by the rules which govern interest in personalty. Pomeroy Ibid., ¶ 697. See also ¶ 712.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Priority in time gives the better equity.”
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.