17 N.J. Super. 366 - Hellstern v. Smelowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably Bush v. New Jersey & New York Transit Co. (1959), Flanigan v. McFeely (1956)
3 federal appellate · 31 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 Menth v. Breeze Corporation, Inc. · Camardo v. New York State Railways · Morril v. Morril · Hayes v. Norcross · Batts v. Joseph Newman, 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the intervening cause which operates to bar a plaintiff's recovery in a negligence action must be a culpable and efficient cause and one which destroys the efficient causal connection between the negligent act or omission of the defendant and the injury or loss.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * The rule, however, to which we refer is certainly peremptory in its relation to what is spoken of as the law of the case, that is, to the principle of law which the appellate tribunal has expressly declared to be applicable to the particular cause of action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Flanigan v. McFeely““We resolve that the arbitrary rule which specifies that an infant under seven years of age is conclusively presumed to be incapable of contributory negligence does not exist in the law of this State.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillman v. Mitchell
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.