Giles v. Gassert’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently October 2008 · most notably Robson v. Rodriquez (1958), STATE, DEPT. OF LAW v. Gonzalez (1995)
104 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 Brandon v. Board of Commissioners of Montclair · State v. Brown · Wright v. Vogt · Brandon v. Board of Commissioners
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The sense of a law is to be collected from its object and the nature of the subject matter, the contextual setting, and the statutes in pari materia; and the import of a particular word or phrase is controlled accordingly. Isolated terms cannot be invoked to defeat a `reasonable construction.' Wright v. Vogt, 7 N.J. 1 (1951). See also State v. Brown, 22 N.J. 405 (1956). The statute is to be liberally construed to advance the remedy, due regard being had to the protection of the Fund against fraud and abuse and to the fulfillment of the essential legislative policy. The literal sense of terms is not to have ascendancy over the reason and spirit of the expression as a whole.”
14 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““* * * eertainly tlie dependent minor children could not be barred of tlieir right to invoke the benefit of the Fund by a failure of notice.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“That which is clearly implied is as much a part of the law as that which is expressed. Brandon v. Board of Com'rs. of Town of Montclair, 124 N.J.L. 135, 143 ( Sup. Ct. 1940), affirmed 125 N.J.L. 367 ( E. & A. 1940).”
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.