Giacobbe v. Gassert’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably White v. Violent Crimes Compensation Board (1978), 71 N.J. Super. 347 - Szczesny v. Vasquez (1962)
36 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 Giles v. Gassert · Corrigan v. Gassert · Salz v. State House Commission · 51 N.J. Super. 111 - Giacobbe v. Gassert
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“because of the physical injuries and their treatment and preoccupation with his affliction and fear of evil consequences, the victim of the mishap was not mentally and emotionally adjusted to his responsibility of giving notice * * *.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the act is to be liberally construed to advance the remedy, due regard being had for the protection of the fund and the realization of the essential legislative design,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the obvious reason of a law that gives it life, not the strict, literal sense of terms. The words may be expanded or limited according to the spirit of the legislative expression. The animating principle of the correlated symbols of expression prevails over the import of particular words and phrases, considered in vacuo or in the context of other and different circumstances. The whole is to be coordinated and fulfillment of the overriding plan and purpose; the procedural course is not an end in itself but a mechanism in aid of the substantive policy____ ... the act is to be liberally construed to advance the remedy, due regard being had for the protection of the fund and the realization of the essential legislative design; and to this end suffices if, because of the physical injuries and their treatment and pre-occupation with his affliction and fear of evil consequences, the victim of the mishap was not mentally and emotionally adjusted to his responsibility of giving notice ... Plaintiff acted in the utmost good faith; he did not willfully default in his obligation, and the fund has not been prejudiced; its administrators have not been disadvantaged in the execution of the statutory policy. [Id. at 425-426, 149 A.2d 214 ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matthews v. Ready
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.