Mellk v. Sarahson

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that New Jersey’s concern for protecting the plaintiff, who was a New Jersey domiciliary, gave it a sufficient interest in the application of New Jersey law; Ohio had no interest in the application of its guest statute
• finding state “has a real interest in having its rules of the road apply to the conduct of the parties in the operation of a motor vehicle on the highways of that state.”
• Where New Jersey residents are involved, New Jersey’s strongly declared policy favoring compensation for its domi-ciliaries prevails
• New Jersey's \strong * * * policy\ of allowing recovery by injured guest for injuries caused by host-driver's negligence \is not diminished merely because accident occurred in another state\
• foregoing application of lex loci approach
• foregoing application of lex loci approach

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

119 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Bishop v. Florida Specialty Paint Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-10-23· cited 244×
• PV Ex Rel. TV v. Camp Jaycee
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2008-11-24· cited 215×
• Kennedy v. Dixon
  Supreme Court of Missouri· 1969-03-10· cited 185×
• Marmon v. Mustang Aviation, Inc.
  Texas Supreme Court· 1968-05-15· cited 180×
• Veazey v. Doremus
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1986-07-10· cited 173×
• State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance v. Estate of Simmons
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1980-07-25· cited 167×
• Velasquez v. Franz
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1991-04-25· cited 155×
• Iwanowa v. Ford Motor Co.
  D. New Jersey· 1999-10-28· cited 155×
• Hataway v. McKinley
  Tennessee Supreme Court· 1992-04-27· cited 150×
• Draper v. Airco, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1978-06-28· cited 140×
• Johnson v. Hassett
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1974-05-02· cited 136×
• Li Fu v. Hong Fu
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1999-07-26· cited 115×
• McKee v. Harris-Seybold Co.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1970-04-02· cited 106×
• Rowe v. Hoffman-La Roche, Inc.
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2007-03-29· cited 106×
• First National Bank in Fort Collins v. Rostek
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1973-09-24· cited 98×
• Andrew McCarrell v. Hoffman-La Roach, Inc.(076524)
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2017-01-24· cited 94×
• Woodward v. Stewart
  Supreme Court of Rhode Island· 1968-07-09· cited 91×
• Schwartz v. Schwartz
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1968-11-20· cited 83×
• Henry v. Richardson-Merrell, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1975-01-22· cited 83×
• Sexton v. Ryder Truck Rental, Inc.
  Michigan Supreme Court· 1982-06-14· cited 80×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Griffith v. United Air Lines, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-10-14· cited 758×
• Babcock v. Jackson
  New York Court of Appeals· 1963-05-09· cited 756×
• Clark v. Clark
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1966-08-31· cited 164×
• Wilcox v. Wilcox
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 1965-03-05· cited 159×
• White v. King
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1966-11-11· cited 130×
• Dym v. Gordon
  New York Court of Appeals· 1965-07-09· cited 90×
• Friday v. Smoot
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1965-06-02· cited 86×
• Kopp v. Rechtzigel
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1966-04-01· cited 27×