3 N.J. Super. 546 - Stack v. Borelli’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 2001
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 William Marbury v. James Madison · Worthington v. Scribner · State ex rel. Ferry v. Williams · Egan v. Board of Water Supply of New York · 1 N.J. Super. 163 - Haines v. Burlington County Bridge Commission
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... [I]n a democracy, the citizens generally have the right to know the truth about all parts of their government, because, without public knowledge of the realities of governmental activities, essential reforms of those activities will be hindered. [ Stack v. Borelli, 3 N.J. Super. 546, 552 , 66 A. 2d 904 (Law Div. 1949)]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In the Ferry, Higgins, Fagan and Cape May cases, all cited by the plaintiff, the particular records, namely, liquor licenses, registry lists, railroad returns and municipal records, would come within the scope of the above statutory definition of public records. The question here is: does the report of an investigation come within the statutory definition? No statute has been called to my attention, nor have I found any, which requires such a report to be filed or recorded with the municipal clerk. It is my opinion that the statutory definition of ‘public records’ (R. S. 47 :3-l) does not include the information, whether reduced to written form or not, upon which the head of a department relied in determining upon a course of action.””
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.