155 N.J. Super. 520 - Bonnet v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 2001
20 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 Washington v. Davis · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Jefferson v. Hackney · Procunier v. Martinez · Robinson v. Cahill
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is rational that counties wherein welfare clients reside bear a share of the cost of benefits and administration thereof.... Providing the necessities of life of such people redounds to the benefit of the county locality in reducing crime, relieving health problems and promoting the general welfare of such localities in many other ways. The historical practice of requiring the expense of the poor to be met by municipalities further supports the rationality of the imposition. And, as argued by the State, since administration of some of these programs is delegated to county officials, the imposition of part of the cost on the counties may tend to promote efficiency in such administration.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“services and functions, whether the Legislature delegates their administration and the funding of their costs, in whole or in part, to local political subdivisions, county or municipal. This is so because the State Legislature controls and regulates them absolutely, subject only to constitutional conditions. See also Robinson v. Cahill, 62 N.J. 473, 502 , 303 A. 2d 273 (1973) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Wright v. State“All that is necessary is a rational relationship between the nature of the respective governmental functions involved and the political subdivisions to which the costs thereof are allocated. [ Bonnet v. State, supra, 155 N.J. Super. at 528-529 , 382 A. 2d 1175 ].”
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.