161 N.J. Super. 403 - Alston v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2012
10 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 State v. Gill · 121 N.J. Super. 213 - Watson v. Jaffe · 153 N.J. Super. 48 - Smith v. Stark · 151 N.J. Super. 286 - Citizens for Chart. Change, Essex Cty. v. Caputo · 131 N.J. Super. 579 - Watson v. United Real Estate, Inc.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when the landlord does not know where the tenant has moved, and makes diligent, good faith efforts to find tenant without success, then the giving of notice required by the statute should be excused.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“double the amount of [the deposit] together with full costs of any action and, in the court's discretion, reasonable attorney's fees.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“entitled to an award of double the amount of the security deposit, plus interest thereon together with costs.”
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.