Phillips v. Curiale’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
4 district · 147 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 151 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Chase Manhattan Bank v. Josephson (1994), Bunk v. Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (1996)
4 district · 147 state decisions
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“accrue,” and construed “occur” to refer to the filing of complaints after the effective date of the amendment, as opposed to accrual of the underlying cause of action. Whether we agree or disagree with this analysis, the amendments to N.J.S.A. 59:8-3 and N.J.S.A. 59:8-8 contain no comparable language. We view Comblatt as an effort, rightly or wrongly, to avoid the “slippery doctrine of retroactivity” and simply determine “whether by the very terms of its enactment, the Legislature itself applied the legislation to a given situation____” thus, not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Serrano v. Gibson“The problem is not one of applying today's legislation to cases that antedate the effective date of the legislation [which in fact it was]; rather the question is whether by the every terms of its enactment, the Legislature itself applied the legislation to a given situation here, plaintiff's case. I would not muddy the waters of the already murky waters of retroactivity analysis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[o]nly from so much of the Court's otherwise straightforward and eminently sensible opinion as attempts to come to grips with the slippery doctrine of retroactivity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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