Wyzykowski v. Rizas’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
104 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 104 later decisions — most recently February 2024 · most notably Township of Stafford v. Stafford Township Zoning Board of Adjustment (1998), Thompson v. City of Atlantic City (2007)
104 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 Burlington County Bridge Commission v. Driscoll · Driscoll v. Burlington-Bristol Bridge Co. · Avant v. Clifford · Graham & the Title Guaranty & Surety Co. v. United States · Ward v. Scott
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 104 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here cannot be a conflict of interest where there do not exist, realistically, contradictory desires tugging the official in opposite directions.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[no] local government officer or employee shall act in his official capacity in any matter where he, a member of his family, or a business organization in which he has an interest, has a direct or indirect financial or personal involvement that might reasonably be expected to impair his objectivity or independence in judgment[.]”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when an official votes on a matter that financially benefits one closely tied to the official, such as an employer, or family member; (3)”
10 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.