192 N.J. Super. 561 - Tefft v. Tefft’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Charles v. Giant Eagle Markets (1987), Young v. Latta (1991)
4 district · 23 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 Rova Farms Resort, Inc. v. Investors Insurance Co. of America · Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield · Suter v. San Angelo Foundry & MacHine Company · 21 Wis. 2d 182 - Pierringer v. Hoger · Cartel Capital Corp. v. Fireco of New Jersey
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he right to contribution accrues only on payment by a joint tort feasor of a money judgment recovered against him on a judgment for the injuries he occasioned. Payment of more than a pro rata share entitles him to restitution under the statute, except as to a settling tort feasor. Moreover, the [New Jersey Supreme C]ourt implied in Greyhound that contribution was not intended when all tort feasors settle. . . . [S]ettlement by all tort feasors bars an action for contribution because there can no longer bean adversary verdict. . . . The policy of our law is that a settling party is released from further responsibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re DeBaggis“may recover the full amount of the molded verdict from any party against whom such recovering party is not barred from recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... the total verdict less that attributable to the settling defendants' percentage share.”
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.