Bucino v. Malone’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
2 district · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently July 2001 · most notably Painter v. Painter (1974), Township of Mahwah v. Bergen County Board of Taxation (1985)
2 district · 56 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 City of Trenton v. New Jersey · City of Jersey City v. Martin · State ex rel. Van Riper v. Parsons · State v. Judge of the Circuit Court · Wilson v. McGuinness
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To avoid improper influences which may result from intermixing in one and the same act such things as have no proper relation to each other, every laio shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.” (Emphasis added)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The difficulty with the plaintiffs' argument in this respect is that this section of the Constitution does not apply to local government, but rather to the State Government only. In New Jersey local government has always been a creation of the Legislature. The people have no inherent right of local self-government beyond the control of the State. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * The Commission can only study the various plans and then report its recommendations to the people. The function of the commissioners is purely that of selection and recommendation, not of legislation or adoption. The charter commission is vested with no powers of government. It cannot impose its will upon the people. Its findings and recommendations have none of the force of legislation. The adoption of a plan rests entirely in the hands of the voters. The members of the charter commission are their agents, chosen because of their ability to aid in the selection of a desirable plan of municipal government. If the voters are dissatisfied with the recommendation of the charter commission, they can vote it down * * *.”
1 later decision 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.