Moss Ind. v. Irving Metals Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently February 2005
5 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 Grey ex rel. Simmons v. Mayor of Paterson · 79 N.J. Eq. 150 - Allman v. United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners of America · 132 N.J. Eq. 613 - Isolantite, Inc. v. United Electrical, Radio & MacHine Workers of America · Hinchman v. Paterson Horse Railroad · Broome v. New York & New Jersey Telephone 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The power of this court to award such relief is indubitable, but it is exercised only in extreme cases where the basic right of the party requesting such extraordinary assistance is very clear, and where considerations of the relative inconveniences bear strongly in favor of the applicant. * * * [Moss Industries, Inc., v. Irving Metals Co., Inc., 140 N. J. Eq. 484, 485 (Ch. 1947)]”
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.