235 N.J. Super. 604 - Morella v. MacHu’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2019
16 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 Mitseff v. Wheeler · Judson v. Peoples Bank & Trust Co. of Westfield · Rappaport v. Nichols · Kelly v. Gwinnell · Congini by Congini v. PORTERSVILLE ETC.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“rational development of the common law in light of [the] declared legislative policy [against facilitating underaged drinking] requires parents to arrange for proper supervision of their teenagers when they are away from the home for a period of time during which spontaneous parties featuring alcoholic beverages are reasonably foreseeable .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... to exercise reasonable care to arrange for competent supervision of their teenagers while they were out of state on vacation. If they failed to do so, and if that breach of duty was the reasonably foreseeable proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries, they must respond in damages.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a minor for the purpose of purchasing alcoholic beverages ... was, nonetheless, an adult with respect to 'basic civil and contractual rights and obligations,' including the right to 'sue, be sued and defend civil actions ....'”
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.