Gentile v. Altermatt

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing no-fault statute “is a legislative realization that minor injury cases ... involve little in the way of non-eeonomic detriment and that the injured party is better compensated by immediate payment of ... benefits.”
• setting forth elements of common-law action of trespass on case as identified by Swift
• setting forth elements of common-law action of trespass on case as identified by Swift
• “[t]he adoption of article first, § 10, recognized all existing rights and removed from the power of the legislature the authority to abolish those rights in their entirety”
• article first, § 10, of state constitution deprives legislature of authority to abolish legal right existing at common law prior to 1818 unless legislature simultaneously establishes reasonable alternative to enforcement of that right
• article first, § 10, of state constitution deprives legislature of authority to abolish legal right existing at common law prior to 1818 unless legislature simultaneously establishes reasonable alternative to enforcement of that right

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).