6 N.J. Super. 456 - Stretch v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2011 · most notably State of New Hampshire v. State of Maine (2001), Scarano v. Central R. Co. of New Jersey (1953)
9 federal appellate · 4 district · 24 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 80 N.J. Eq. 565 - In re Walsh's Estate · 140 N.J. Eq. 575 - Moses v. Moses · Cleaves v. Yeskel · Rogers v. Helen Fountain Genung · Miske v. Habay
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A party will not be permitted to play fast and loose with the courts, nor to assume a position in one court entirely different from and inconsistent with that taken by him in another court or proceeding with reference to the very same matter or thing.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The rule that a party will not be allowed to maintain inconsistent positions is applied in respect of positions in judicial proceedings. As thus applied it may be regarded not strictly as a question of estoppel, but as a matter in the nature of a positive rule of procedure based on manifest justice and, to a greater or less degree, on considerations of orderliness, regularity, and expedition in litigation .. The principle requiring consistency in judicial proceedings is, however, customarily considered a form of equitable estoppel.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Equity will not suffer the use of the Statute of Frauds as an instrument of fraud.”
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.