Wornat Development Corp. v. Vakalis’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2010
2 district · 11 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 Packaging Industries Group, Inc. v. Cheney · Beaton v. Land Court · Riley v. DAVISON CONSTRUCTION CO., INC. · Galvin v. Welsh Manufacturing Co. · Commonwealth v. Gogan
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No action for a deficiency shall be brought ... by the holder of a mortgage note or other obligation secured by mortgage of real estate after a foreclosure sale by him ... unless a notice in writing of the mortgagee's intention to foreclose the mortgage has been mailed ... to the defendant sought to be charged with the deficiency at his last address then known to the mortgagee, together with a warning of liability for the deficiency ... not less than twenty-one days before the date of the sale under the power in the mortgage....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the distinction the Legislature preserved between Mortgages foreclosed under a power of sale and those foreclosed by some other method is a rational one. In Massachusetts, two primary foreclosure methods exist: foreclosure under power of sale, G.L. c. 244, §§ 11-17, and foreclosure by entry and possession, G.L. e. 244, §§ 1, 2.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Because we conclude that the provisions of § 17B do not apply to a foreclosure by entry and possession in Massachusetts, we shall not apply them to a strict foreclosure in Vermont.”
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.