219 N.J. Super. 383 - Dunn v. Durso’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Waterson v. General Motors Corp. (1988), 248 N.J. Super. 540 - Crispin v. Volkswagenwerk Ag. (1991)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 22 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 United States v. Carroll Towing Co. · Bentzler v. Braun · Spier v. Barker · Fudge v. City of Kansas City · Britton v. Doehring
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We therefore conclude that, in those cases where seat belts are available and there is evidence before the jury indicating causal relationship between the injuries sustained and the failure to use seat belts, it is proper and necessary to instruct the jury in that regard. * * * * * * In the absence of credible evidence by one qualified to express the opinion of how the use or nonuse of seat belts would have affected the particular injuries, it is improper for the court to permit the jury to speculate on the effect that seat belts would have had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the relevant inquiry is not whether the failure to use a seat belt contributed to the cause of the accident but whether the nonuse of a seat belt contributed to plaintiff's injuries.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where the plaintiff suffers an original injury, and his negligence consists in failure to exercise reasonable care to prevent further harm to himself.”
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.