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← 101 N.J. 147 - Lang v. Baker

Lang v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
December 2006
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2006

3 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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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 Rova Farms Resort, Inc. v. Investors Insurance Co. of America · Botta v. Brunner · Barnett v. Malley · Niederkorn v. Niederkorn · 62 Ill. App. 3d 474 - Dils v. City of Chicago

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[e]very final judgment, except final judgments by default, shall grant the relief to which the party in whose favor it is rendered is entitled even though that party has not demanded such relief in the pleadings, provided the parties have been given an adequate opportunity to be heard as to the relief granted.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Morgan v. Gay
  2. “[i]t appears universally agreed that the effect of the Rule is to significantly curtail, if not totally neutralize, the binding effect of the specific demand for damages.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Morgan v. Gay
  3. “[u]nder the Rule, a verdict in excess of the demand is not prohibited unless it would clearly prejudice the opposing party.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Morgan v. Gay

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.