126 N.J. Super. 281 - Jackson v. Heymann’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2010
9 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 Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield · McAndrew v. Mularchuk · Amelchenko v. Borough of Freehold · Bergen v. KOPPENAL · B. W. King, Inc. v. Town of West New York
Most-quoted passages
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“In compliance with the statute, police officers file their reports with the director of motor vehicles. They are utilized by the prosecutor’s office in cases requiring criminal and quasi-criminal proceedings. However, because of their usual availability, the reports in a vast majority of cases ultimately become a part of the parties files in civil litigations. It is to be noted that this is a separate and secondary utilization of the reports. There is no statutory mandate requiring preparation of such reports for civil proceedings. The purpose of the reports, from the police officer’s position, is not the same as a civil investigator. Plaintiff here seeks to place upon each action in investigation by a police officer the duty of a civil law investigator.... It is the opinion of this court that, as a matter of law, a municipality does not owe a duty to victims to conduct an investigation of their motor vehicle accidents. Since the city owes no duty to plaintiff, it cannot be held answerable to plaintiff in negligence [cite omitted]. This court is unwilling, absent legislation, to extend the police officer's role in the investigation of accidents to that of an investigator for civil litigants.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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