347 N.J. Super. 11 - Freeman v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 14 district · 14 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act)) · 42 U.S.C. § 1986
Relies on Heck v. Humphrey · Wilson v. Garcia · Irwin v. Department of Veterans Affairs · United States v. Kubrick · California v. ARC America Corp.
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent a showing of intentional inducement or trickery by a defendant, the doctrine. . . should be applied sparingly and only in the rare situation where it is demanded by sound legal principles and in the interest of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) [where] `the complainant has been induced or tricked by his adversary's misconduct into allowing the filing deadline to pass' . . . (2) where a plaintiff has `in some extraordinary way' been prevented from asserting his rights [and] . . . (3) where a plaintiff has timely asserted his rights mistakenly by either defective pleading or in the wrong forum. [ Freeman v. State, 347 N.J.Super. 11, 31 , 788 A. 2d 867 (App.Div.), certif. denied, 172 N.J. 178 , 796 A. 2d 895 (2002) (quoting Dunn v. Borough of Mountainside, 301 N.J.Super. 262, 275 , 693 A. 2d 1248 (App.Div.1997), certif. denied, 153 N.J. 402 , 709 A. 2d 795 (1998)).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“`affords relief from inflexible, harsh or unfair application of a statute of limitations,' [it] does not excuse claimants from exercising the reasonable insight and diligence required to pursue their claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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