202 N.J. Super. 106 - Ayers v. Jackson Tp.’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
3 district · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently January 2007 · most notably 208 N.J. Super. 372 - Brown v. Brown (1986), 481 So. 2d 517 - Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc. v. Cox (1985)
3 district · 31 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)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1988
Relies on Parratt v. Taylor · Henningsen v. Bloomfield Motors, Inc. · Lopez v. Swyer · Pennsylvania Railroad v. Rychlik · Insurance Co. of North America v. Forty-Eight Insulations, Inc.
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is to prohibit the receipt of duplicate benefits by a claimant....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“from any other source other than a joint tortfeasor.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Faced with the admitted inability of the expert witness to quantify the increased risk, we cannot rule out the probability that such increase is so microscopically small as to be meaningless. Without some quantifying guidance it becomes impossible to say that defendant has so significantly increased the “reasonable probability,” Coll v. Sherry, 29 N.J. 166, 175 , 148 A.2d 481 (1959), that any of the plaintiffs will develop cancer so as to justify imposing upon defendant the financial burden of lifetime medical surveillance for early clinical signs of cancer.”
2 later decisions 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.