Paternoster v. Shuster’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 2013
13 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 Printing Mart-Morristown v. Sharp Electronics Corp. · Crowe v. De Gioia · Velantzas v. Colgate-Palmolive Co. · Nero v. Hyland · Mystic Isle Development Corp. v. Perskie & Nehmad
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he doctrine of de minimis `has been considered to apply where no damage is implied by law from the wrong, and only trifling or immaterial damage results therefrom'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“pending ... litigation ... in which the public body is, or may become a party[,]”
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.