City of Newark v. State of New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis
262 U.S. 192 · 1923
Citation profile
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 209 later decisions (12 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2025 · most notably Williams v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore Same (1933), City of South Lake Tahoe v. California Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (1980)
38 federal appellate · 6 district · 101 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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 City of Trenton v. New Jersey · Williams v. Eggleston · Isaac Mason v. State of Missouri · State v. City of Trenton
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 209 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“cannot invoke the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The City cannot invoke the protection of the Fourteenth Amendment against the State. Considering the former opinions of this Court, there is no substantial federal question in the case.”
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.