3 N.J. Super. 474 - Hoffman v. Perkins’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 1990
2 district · 7 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 Sanford v. Keer · Grigg v. Landis · 77 N.J. Eq. 232 - Van Riper v. Wickersham · Bowen v. Smith · 94 N.J. Eq. 632 - Orange Society of New Jerusalem v. Konski
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to which the purchaser must not be subjected * * * they must refer to a hazard which is to be determined by the chance of successful attack as viewed by the court in the suit for specific performance.' Per Stevenson, V.C., in Barger v. Gery, supra . (Italics mine.) And as Backes, V.C., aptly said in Salter v. Beatty, 101 N.J. Eq. 86 , `The remote possibility of an idle and vain suit is not within the category of being”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Therefore, it is necessary to here determine, not whether a suit could be filed to restrain the construction of an apartment house, which suit might eventually be classed as a vain or idle suit, but rather whether such a suit could be pursued to a successful conclusion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Of course, some ill-advised person might attempt to do so, but `when the authorities speak of the”
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.