Serrano v. Gibson’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 9 state decisions

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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “not only at the time of the accident, but during the critical subsequent ninety-day period, the notice obligations of N.J.S.A. 59:8-3 and ... -8, which now must be met during that time period as to public employees, did not exist. Plaintiff[ ] could not have known [she] could lose [her] then viable cause of action ... by not complying with the notice provisions that would be triggered by subsequent legislation. [ Id. at 318 , 700 A. 2d 390 .]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 421 N.J. Super. 107 - Botis v. Estate of Kudrick

2. “Under the curative exception to prospective applicability, a new law is given retroactive effect `if it is designed merely to carry out or explain the intent of the original statute.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 421 N.J. Super. 107 - Botis v. Estate of Kudrick

3. “Even if one of these exceptions applies, a statute should not be given retroactive application if it would result in `manifest injustice' to one of the parties.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 328 N.J. Super. 484 - Lombardo v. Revlon, Inc.