Goss v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Suter v. San Angelo Foundry & MacHine Company (1979), Green v. Auerbach Chevrolet Corp. (1992)
29 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 Dellwo v. Pearson · Charbonneau v. MacRury · Bixenman v. Hall · Bush v. New Jersey & New York Transit Co. · 17 N.J. Super. 366 - Hellstern v. Smelowitz
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to be submitted to the jury in the absence of evidence `from which the jury could infer that the child was capable of understanding and avoiding the danger of injury involved in the circumstances of the case' 30 N.J. at 358 . The party asserting the infant's negligence or contributory negligence bore the burden of proof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... [T]o hold otherwise would further complicate an already difficult area of tort law. The practicalities of the situation weigh heavily in favor of a single standard. [ Goss v. Allen, 70 N.J. 442, 448 (1976).]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“certain activities engaged in by minors [for example, hunting, driving, operating a boat] are so potentially hazardous as to require that the minor be held to an adult standard of care ...”
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.