State v. De Meo’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
4 district · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently September 2006 · most notably State v. Colson (1968), Deerfield Estates, Inc. v. Township of East Brunswick (1972)
4 district · 38 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 Williams v. State of North Carolina · Williams v. State of North Carolina · May v. Anderson · Sherrer v. Sherrer · Johnson v. Muelberger
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * the time is long past when a defendant may justly be heard to say in our courts that he reasonably and honestly held the belief that he was free to remarry on the basis of a Mexican mail order divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]ince the crime is statutory the Legislature is free to require or omit guilty knowledge as an element thereof.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“That which is properly implied is as much part of our statutory law as that which is expressed.”
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.