Mazur v. Blum’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
149 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 149 later decisions — most recently February 2003 · most notably Adolphson v. Zoning Board of Appeals (1988), West Hartford Interfaith Coalition, Inc. v. Town Council (1994)
149 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))
Relies on State v. Evans · Anderson v. Ludgin · Doe v. Manson · Valley Cable Vision, Inc. v. Public Utilities Commission · Jones v. Civil Service Commission
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 149 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the language of the statute is clear and unambiguous, it is assumed that the words themselves express the intention of the legislature and there is no room for judicial construction.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“throughout the statute, the `board of education' and the `exclusive representative' of the unit are referred to as”
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.