Carey v. Shellburne, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently March 1997
1 federal appellate · 2 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 Lumund v. Bd. of Adjustment of the Borough of Rutherford · 114 N.J. Eq. 382 - Dieckman v. Walser · Lennig v. Ocean City Ass'n · Stoever v. Gowen · Bright v. Forest Hill Park Development 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The authorities are uniform in holding that where a Deed is executed and delivered pursuant to a Contract of Sale of Realty, the latter merges with the former and becomes void.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reed v. Hassell
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.