10 N.J. Super. 152 - Cortese v. Cortese’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2002 · most notably Breithaupt v. Abram (1957), Little v. Streater (1981)
68 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 Berry v. Chaplin · Beach v. Beach · Jordan v. Mace · Lasasso v. Lasasso · McFeely v. Board of Pension Commissioners
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the field of contested paternity . . . the truth is so often obscured because social pressures create a conspiracy of silence or, worse, induce deliberate falsity. 17 "The value of blood tests as a wholesome aid in the quest for truth in the administration of justice in these matters cannot be gainsaid in this day. Their reliability as an indicator of the truth has been fully established. The substantial weight of medical and legal authority attests their accuracy, not to prove paternity, and not always to disprove it, but 'they can disprove it conclusively in a great many cases provided they are administered by specially qualified experts' . . . .”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carroll v. Moore · Doe v. Doe““* * * judicial discretion is not an arbitrary or personal discretion to be exercised according to the whim or caprice of the individual judge; it is a mere legal discretion and he should use the authority reposed in him when the essential requisites for its exercise exist and the justice of the course is apparent. McFeely v. Board of Pension Commissioners of Hoboken, 1 N. J. 212, at 215 (1948). We are empowered to review his action and to reverse it when it appears his judicial discretion was not properly exorcised in the circumstances, and it also appears the error injuriously affected the substantial rights of a party. State v. Hunter, 4 N. J. Super. 531, at 535 (App. Div. 1949); cf. Rules 1:2-20 and 3:81-13.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The value of blood tests as a wholesome aid in the quest for truth in the administration of justice . . . cannot be gainsaid in this day. Their reliability as an indicator of the truth has been fully established. ... It is plain we should hold, as we do, that this unanimity of respected authorities justifies our taking judicial notice of the general recognition of the accuracy and value of the tests when properly performed by persons skilled in giving them. The law does not hesitate to adopt scientific aids to the discovery of truth which have achieved such recognition.””
2 later decisions 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.