107 N.J. Super. 7 - Schaefer v. Strelecki’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2006
6 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 Giles v. Gassert · 64 N.J. Super. 405 - Advance Piece Dye Works, Inc. v. Travelers Indem. Co. · Minter v. Bendix Aviation Corp. · State v. Walker · 79 N.J. Super. 194 - Dietz v. Meyer
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We accordingly hold that where genuine doubt exists as to the identification of the person (owner or driver) responsible for the operation of an automobile in a “hit and run” accident resulting in personal injury or death, the plaintiff shall not be required to exhaust his remedy against the assumed driver and owner before recourse to suit against the Director, but, provided he is otherwise eligible to do so, may implead the latter as a defendant in the alternative in the suit against the assumed owner or driver, or both. Thereafter, liability shall be determined at a single trial. We are satisfied that this method of procedure best comports with the liberal construction to be given to the Unsatisfied Claim and Judgment Fund Law, Giles v. Gassert, 23 N. J. 22, 34 (1956), the spirit of our modern practice, and the requirements of substantial justice. (107 N. J. Super, at 13]”
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.