49 N.J. Super. 356 - MacFadden v. MacFadden’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2018 · most notably Schlemm v. Schlemm (1960), Jones v. Hubbard (1999)
3 federal appellate · 35 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 102 N.J. Eq. 517 - Howard v. West Jersey, C., R.R. Co. · 38 N.J. Super. 419 - Public Service Elec. and Gas Co. v. Waldroup · Kelley v. Curtiss · Washington Construction Co., Inc. v. Spinella · Green v. Stone
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all acts, omissions or concealments which involve a breach of a legal or equitable duty, trust or confidence justly reposed, and are injurious to another, or by which an undue or unconscientious advantage is taken of another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is where the corporate form is used as a shield behind which injustice is sought to be done by those who have the control of it that equity penetrates the veil.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The agreement here sued upon is not one solely for alimony,”
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.