State v. Owen’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2002
23 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 Federal Housing Administration, Region No. 4 v. Burr · Trustees for the Support of Public Schools v. Inhabitants of Trenton · Strobel Steel Construction Co. v. State Highway Commission of New Jersey · Empire Trust Co. v. Board of Commerce & Navigation · 18 N.J. Eq. 305 - Cross v. Mayor of Morristown
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.
“It springs from the superior and preeminent policy to preserve public rights, revenues and property from injury and loss otherwise resulting from the inadvertence or neglect of public agents. In a representative government under which the people act only through the authority delegated to their agents, the reasons for the application of the doctrine continue to be cogent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.