Roselle v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably Southern Burlington County N.A.A.C.P. v. Township of Mount Laurel (1975), Kozesnik v. Township of Montgomery (1957)
61 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 Hadacheck v. Sebastian · Welch v. Swasey · Schmidt v. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, CITY OF NEWARK · Washington National Insurance v. Board of Review of New Jersey Unemployment Compensation Commission · Mansfield & Swett, Inc. v. Town of West Orange
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to `make, ordain and establish all manner of wholesome and of reasonable laws, not repugnant to the Constitution,' as may be deemed to be `for the good and welfare of the commonwealth, and all the subjects of the same.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Restraints upon land use cannot be capricious or unduly discriminatory. There cannot be discrimination between persons or property not reasonably related to the service of an essential public need. Welch v. Swasey, 214 U.S. 91 , 29 S.Ct. 567 , 53 L.Ed. 923 (1909); Washington National Insurance Co. v. Board of Review, 1 N.J. 545 , 64 A.2d 443 (1949). This is peculiarly so in the exercise of the zoning police power. Constitutional uniformity and equality requires that classification be founded in real and not feigned differences having to do with the purposes for which the classes are formed.” Roselle v. Wright, 21 N.J. 400 , 122 A.2d 506 [1956]. “To be a valid exercise of power, a zoning restriction must have some rational connection with the promotion of public health, safety, morals, or welfare.” Regner v. County of McHenry, 9 Ill.2d 577 , 138 N.E.2d 545 [1956],”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shatz v. Phillips“The exercise of the police power is contained by the rule of reason, the antithesis of the arbitrary action that is alien to the genius and spirit of our democratic society. The constitutional principles of due process and the equal protection of the laws ordain that the exercise of the power be wholly free of unreason and arbitrariness, and that the means selected for the realization of the policy bear a real and substantial relation to that end. [at 409-410]”
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.