Tabler v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably Zapata v. Burns (1988), Yeoman v. Com., Health Policy Bd. (1998)
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 46 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 MacPherson v. . Buick Motor Co. · Mandel v. Bradley · Rosenberg v. Town of North Bergen · Kitchens v. Smith · Klein v. Catalano
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a substantial and justifiable reason [must appear] from legislative history, from the statute's title, preamble or subject matter, or from some other authoritative source.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) No action to recover damages, whether based upon contract or sounding in tort, resulting from or arising out of any deficiency in the construction compo nents, design, planning, supervision, inspection or construction of any improvement to real property, or for any injury to property, either real or personal, arising out of such deficiency, or for injury to the person or for wrongful death arising out of any such deficiency, shall be brought against any person after the expiration of seven (7) years following the substantial completion of such improvement.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he fundamental question is whether the General Assembly had a reasonable basis for this legislation sufficient to justify creating a separate classification for certain persons engaged in the construction of improvements to real property, granting these persons a special immunity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.