Horwitz v. Reichenstein’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably Elizabeth Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Howell (1957), State v. Downie (1990)
30 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 Wilson v. McGuinness · Hackensack Water Co. v. Ruta
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“N.J.S.A. 40:69A-151. It also provides that elections to fill vacancies or to replace officers who are recalled by the voters are to be conducted under the general election laws, N.J.S.A. 40:69A-60 and 40:69A-175 * * *. [ 15 N.J., at 9, 10 ; emphasis added] II Defendant-intervenor also argues that an election to fill a vacancy is a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]here a statute is silent or ambiguous, `it is our clear duty to choose that construction which will carry out the legislative intent of the statute as a whole * * *.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Such acceptance shall certify that the candidate is a resident of and a legal voter in the jurisdiction of the office for which the nomination is to be made. * * *””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Krulish v. Evans
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.