Close v. Close’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently April 1978
9 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because the decrees themselves adjudge that from the date thereof, the moneys which they direct the defendant to pay shall be a lien upon his personal and real estate in New Jersey, therefore they are a lien thereon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“were according to the dates of the executions being levied, and not otherwise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“be a lien upon the personal and real estate of the defendant in New Jersey,”
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.