Pico v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Tice v. Cramer (1993), Weiss v. New Jersey Transit (1992)
2 district · 52 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 Pierce v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. · Portee v. Jaffee · Rochinsky v. State of NJ, Dept. of Transp. · Malloy v. State · 151 N.J. Super. 440 - Mc Gowan v. Borough of Eatontown
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Neither a public entity nor a public employee is liable for an injury caused solely by the effect on the use of streets and highways of weather conditions.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he public policy of this State is that public entities shall be liable for their negligence only as set forth in the Tort Claims Act.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[a]ny liability of a public entity established by this act is subject to any immunity of the public entity.”
3 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.