Fitzgerald v. Coddington Stables’s Empirical Analysis

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11 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “is remedial social legislation and should be given liberal construction in order that its beneficent purposes may be accomplished.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 419 N.J. Super. 547 - Whitfield v. BONANNO REAL ESTATE · Cruz v. Central Jersey Landscaping, Inc.

2. ““The Legislature’s intent is the paramount goal when interpreting a statute and, generally, the best indicator of that intent is the statutory language. We ascribe to the statutory words their ordinary meaning and significance, and read them in context with related provisions so as to give sense to the legislation as a whole. It is not the function of this Court to rewrite a plainly-written enactment of the Legislature nor presume that the Legislature intended something other than that expressed by way of the plain language. We cannot write in an additional qualification which the Legislature pointedly omitted in drafting its own enactment, or engage in conjecture nor surmise which will circumvent the plain meaning of the act. Our duty is to construe and apply the statute as enacted.” [Fitzgerald v. Coddington Stables, 186 N.J. 21, 31 , 890 A.2d 933 (2006) (quoting DiProspero v. Penn, 183 N.J. 477, 492 , 874 A.2d 1039 (2005) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 27 N.J. Tax 293 - Murphy v. Director, Division of Taxation