205 N.J. Super. 367 - Mazakas v. Wray’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2001 · most notably Hartsfield v. Fantini (1997), Rutgers Casualty Insurance v. Vassas (1995)
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 Galligan v. Westfield Centre Service, Inc. · White v. Violent Crimes Compensation Board · Kaczmarek v. New Jersey Turnpike Authority · Heffner v. Jacobson · 186 N.J. Super. 296 - Tantum v. Binz
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For example, if plaintiffs contended that defendants through negotiations lulled them into missing the filing date, a court might determine that defendants should be equitably estopped from raising the 30-day bar and that the petition should be deemed filed nunc pro tunc. [Id. 205 N.J.Super. at 371-72 , 500 A2d 1085 .]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Generally, when asked after the passage of 30 days'to bypass the binding effect of this statutory arbitration, the trial courts should be guided by the same principles as they would apply in passing upon a motion for relief from an order or a judgment under R. 4:50-1. [Ibid.]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“. the trial court’s express and inherent power to relax rules and grant equitable relief must be sparingly exercised with a view to implementing both the letter and the spirit of the compulsory arbitration statute and the rules promulgated pursuant thereto, to the end that the arbitration proceedings achieve finality. [ 205 N.J.Super. at 372 ; emphasis supplied]”
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.