197 N.J. Super. 609 - Smith v. Nieves’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
4
states following
July 1993
most recently cited
4 district · 13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Costa v. Josey · Brown v. Brown · 94 N.J. Super. 530 - Roll v. Timberman · 226 So. 2d 450 - City of Tampa v. Davis · Draper v. City of Los Angeles
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It has been held that ... the State has the burden of proving ... its discretionary action was not palpably unreasonable,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether and how to utilize or apply existing resources.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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