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This is a full-text archive of the Opinions of the New Jersey Courts, including the Supreme Court, from March, 1994 to date, the Superior Court Appellate Division and the Tax Court from September, 1995 to date.

Please note that in 2005, the New Jersey Administrative Office of Courts changed its publication policy and began to release all Appellate Division decisions for inclusion in this database. Before that date, decisions marked "Unpublished" were not released, and are available only from the court directly.

NEWS:

We have been informed that there are companies that are charging the public for providing links to this website. Please be aware that the Rutgers - Camden online law collections are free to everyone, and require no registration or login. We have absolutely no relationship with any company or website that does this.

We are pleased to announce that Rutgers - Camden Law Library has added a very large number of U.S. Circuit Court and U.S. Supreme Court decisions to our online collections. They are available HERE

These decisions were made available from Public.Resource.Org.

With these documents integrated into our collections, longtime users of our N.J. Courts materials will notice that when clicking on case citations in our New Jersey Documents, the vast majority of U.S., S.Ct., L.Ed., F.2d and F.3d links will now take you to a free copy of those decisions.

We have always said that as soon as we can provide a free link to material, we would do so. The new Public.Resource.Org material is a substantial step forward.

For other New Jersey courts and resources, click here.

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New Jersey Courts Case Citator

For any citation you input, the citator attempts to return all the documents in the Rutgers NJ Courts collection that include mention of that citation. Search results are displayed with an expanded "K.W.I.C." display (your citation will be highlighted, and the results will include approx. 80 words before and after the citation). Here is what we are trying to do: with other popular commercial citators, you get either colored flags or code letters which are helpful, but naturally ambiguous. Others just give you a list of citing cases with no guidance at all. However with this citator, the goal is to give users enough information to make their own decision about the significance of the citing case, while keeping it short enough so that is not too much work.

Please keep in mind, however, that the quality of your results is based on the quality of the citation you enter.

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[Tried it but got nothing? Our search engine is pretty flexible with minor variations in spacing and punctuation, but not entirely foolproof. Leaving out all periods and spacing will probably give you a failed search. For example: "133 F.Supp.2d 1254" will work, but "133 FSupp2d 1254" will not.]

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NOTES FOR USERS:

These cases are made available by an agreement between the New Jersey Administrative Office of Courts and Rutgers University School of Law - Camden.  No changes of any kind are made by Rutgers aside from the conversion from WordPerfect 5.1 format to HTML.  All opinions are available in their original word processed format by clicking the hypertext link at the top of each document. 

Any Questions and comments about this service are welcome.  The staff communicates by e-mail, and can be reached at this address: courtweb@camlaw.rutgers.edu .  We try to respond to all inquiries the same day.   Before writing with a problem, however, please read our help pages. Also, please keep in mind that we are not lawyers and cannot give legal advice.

(NOTE: Many Supreme Court opinions have a detailed syllabus attached to the top of the text, with a warning that the syllabus is not "official". The official opinion, however, is there below the syllabus. Just scroll down.)