194 N.J. Super. 136 - Kessler v. Tarrats’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2008 · most notably 210 N.J. Super. 76 - Atlantic City Mun. Utilities Authority v. Hunt (1986), 203 N.J. Super. 365 - Simon v. Oldmans Tp. (1985)
4 district · 25 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 Home Building & Loan Ass'n v. Blaisdell · United States Trust Company of New York v. New Jersey · Allied Structural Steel Company v. Spannaus · City of Trenton v. New Jersey · City of El Paso v. Simmons
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he specific holding in Ventron did not address all aspects of the Spill Act, but we find the analysis used in finding the strict liability provision retroactive to be equally applicable to the lien provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fund shall be strictly liable, without regard to fault, for all cleanup and removal costs and for all direct and indirect damages no matter by whom sustained ...”
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.