Nolan v. Fitzpatrick’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
2 district · 102 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 105 later decisions — most recently April 2005 · most notably Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Township of Mount Laurel (1983), Brunetti v. Borough of New Milford (1975)
2 district · 102 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 Myers v. Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. · Ward v. Keenan · 10 N.J. Super. 188 - Waldor v. Untermann · McDonald v. Board of Chosen Freeholders · State v. Board of Chosen Freeholders
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 105 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except when it is manifest that the interests of justice require otherwise.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n every case the court should determine whether it is in the interest of justice to dispense with the requirement that the plaintiff exhaust other judicial or administrative remedies, bearing in mind, however, that [the rule of court] itself dictates that the interest of justice is ordinarily best served by requiring the plaintiff to first exhaust his other remedies and that it is only in special circumstances that the interest of justice will require otherwise.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he doctrine of prior resort (and as well the twin requirement of exhausting administrative remedies) does not go to the jurisdiction of the courts, but solely to the question whether the matter is ripe, as a matter of policy, for judicial determination.””
2 later decisions 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.