57 N.J. Super. 418 - Hansen v. Janitschek’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently June 1996
3 federal appellate · 14 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 State v. Kociolek · West Jersey Title & Guaranty Co. v. Industrial Trust Co. · In Re Selser · 42 N.J. Super. 332 - Jardine Estates, Inc. v. Donna Brook Corp. · State v. Toscano
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Nevertheless, since the privilege results in the exclusion of evidence, the doctrine `runs counter to the fundamental theory of our judicial system that the fullest disclosure of facts will best lead to the truth and ultimately to the triumph of justice.' In re Selser, 15 N.J. 393, 405 (1954). It is therefore to be strictly limited to the purposes for which it exists. Ibid., at pages 406, 407. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is the generally recognized rule that the privilege applies only to communications made to the attorney where the `strict relation of attorney and client exists,' not where he acts as an agent or an attorney in fact for another. The activity must be `peculiarly within the province of an attorney at law.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where one party, having superior knowledge, misrepresents material facts to another, or fails to reveal material facts which he is under a duty to reveal, ... such conduct constitutes fraud which will move a court of equity to grant relief”
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.