Ganger v. Moffett’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 2009 · most notably Standard Accident Insurance v. Pellecchia (1954), Donovan v. Bachstadt (1982)
25 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 Polhemus v. Prudential Realty Corp. · 127 N.J. Eq. 49 - Levy v. Massachusetts Accident Co. · Bater v. Cleaver · Gerbert v. Trustees of the Congregation of the Sons of Abraham · King v. Ruckman
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`where its enforcement would be inconsistent with the terms of a contract or when the contract, either expressly or by implication, forbids its application.'”
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.