189 N.J. Super. 561 - Ayers v. Jackson Tp.’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Sterling v. Velsicol Chemical Corp. (1988), 611 F. Supp. 1223 - In Re "Agent Orange" Product Liability Litigation (1985)
6 federal appellate · 5 district · 19 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on Parratt v. Taylor · Paul v. Davis · Baker v. McCollan · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · Armstrong v. Manzo
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]mmediate and direct physical impact and injury”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Damages may be recovered for the prospective consequences of a tortious injury (cite omitted). It is not the reasonable probability of whether plaintiffs will suffer cancer in the future that should determine whether medical surveillance is necessary. Rather, it is whether it is necessary, based on medical judgment, that a plaintiff who has been exposed to known carcinogens at various levels should undergo annual medical testing in order to properly diagnose the warning signs of the development of the disease. If it is necessary, then the probability of the need for that medical surveillance is cognizable as part of plaintiffs’ claim (cite omitted). If plaintiffs are deprived of any necessary diagnostic services in the future because they have no source of funds available to pay for the testing, the consequences may result in serious, if not fatal illness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to support a finding that emotional injury as evidenced by substantial bodily injury or sickness has resulted from knowledge that defendants have ingested contaminants ... [since] ... [o]therwise the task of evaluating and quantifying each person's apprehension in every ground water pollution case, each of which might involve hundreds, if not thousands of residents, would become prodigious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.