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← 222 NJ 480 - State v. Munafo

State v. Munafo’s Empirical Analysis

2015

Citation profile

23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
December 2018
most recently cited

23 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on DiProspero v. Penn · Paper Mill Playhouse v. Millburn Township · Swede v. City of Clifton · State v. Jenkins · State v. Corsaro

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A] court may not rewrite a statute or add language that the Legislature omitted.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “'is to discern and give effect' to the legislature's intent.”
    5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “To begin, we look at the plain language of the statute.”
    4 later decisions 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.