Homann v. Torchinsky’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 2018
2 district · 16 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 Atlantic Northern Airlines, Inc. v. Schwimmer · Kampf v. Franklin Life Insurance · Tessmar v. Grosner · 141 N.J. Eq. 379 - Mantell v. International Plastic Harmonica Corp. · Broadway Maintenance Corp. v. Rutgers
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.
“In the quest for the common intention of the parties to a contract the court must consider the relations of the parties, the attendant circumstances, and the objects they were trying to attain. An agreement must be construed in the context of the circumstances under which it was entered into and it must be accorded a rational meaning in keeping with the express general purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The violations must be so pervasive as to indicate either a change in the neighborhood or a clear intent on the part of the property owners generally to abandon or modify the original plan.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“when there is any other reason which might preclude a fair and unbiased hearing and judgment, or which might reasonably lead counsel or the parties to believe so.”
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.