171 N.J. Super. 310 - Palmisano v. Ehrig’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2003
3 federal appellate · 7 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 · Rappaport v. Nichols · Hill v. Yaskin · McAndrew v. Mularchuk · Stoelting v. Hauck
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Firearms have been held to be inherently dangerous instrumentalities. One who possesses firearms is under a duty to use extraordinary care in their handling. The extraordinary degree of care imposed includes a duty to take such steps as will protect an innocent person from the expectable action of other persons. (citation omitted). [ Ibid. ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“plaintiffs are not required to demonstrate that the precise events could have been foreseen; they are only required to demonstrate that some harm might reasonably be anticipated,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The role of the judge in deciding a motion for summary judgment is to decide whether there is a genuine issue of fact, not to decide the issue if he finds it to exist.”
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.