Meltzer v. Koenigsberg’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably People v. Oliver (1956), Daniman v. Board of Education (1954)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 45 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 McCluskey v. . Cromwell · In re the Accounting of Rathscheck
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Where] the language found in the statute is clear and unambiguous, . the intent of the framers “is to be sought first of all, in the words and language employed, and if the words are free from ambiguity and doubt, and express plainly, clearly and distinctly, the sense of the framers of the instrument, there is no occasion to resort to other means of interpretation.” McCluskey v. Cromwell, 11 N. Y. 593 , 601-602.”
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.