Eliason v. State Roads Commission’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently January 1998
24 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 Handlon v. Town of Belleville · Albert v. Public Service Commission · 52 N.J. Super. 526 - Hintenberger v. City of Garfield
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a proceeding before an agency in which the legal rights, duties, statutory entitlements, or privileges of specific parties are required by law or constitutional right to be determined after an agency hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he Commissioner acts in an executive and administrative capacity. The hiring and firing of employees is essentially administration by an executive. It does not cease to be executive because the need to make a decision is triggered by the request of a citizen for action. To decide whether to seek to discharge an employee requires determination of facts and the exercise of judgment and discretion, but this does not of itself make the initial determination or the ultimate decision judicial or quasi-judicial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The appointing authority may ... reject any person [for appointment to a classified position] ... upon statement ... of the cause for rejection.... No employee ... may be permanently removed ... except ... upon written charges.... Such charges may be filed by the appointing authority or by any citizen, provided ... that no such charges may be filed by a citizen, without the consent of the appointing authority or of the Secretary. ...”
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.