354 N.J. Super. 586 - James v. Torres’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
2 district · 39 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brill v. Guardian Life Insurance Co. of America · Oswin v. Shaw · In Re the Closing of Jamesburg High School · Cruz v. Paige · 267 N.J. Super. 305 - Phillips v. Phillips
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a permanent injury within a reasonable degree of medical probability.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the Legislature clearly intended to require that an injury be both permanent and serious to permit a plaintiff to cross the amended verbal threshold.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“TYPE 6: permanent loss of use of a body organ, member, function or system; TYPE 7: permanent consequential limitation of use of a body function or system; TYPE 8: significant limitation of use of a body function or system; TYPE 9: a medically determined injury or impairment of a non-permanent nature which prevents the injured person from performing substantially all of the material acts which constitute that person's usual and customary daily activities for not less than 90 days during the 180 days immediately following the occurrence of the injury or impairment....”
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.