Kohler v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2002
12 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 New Jersey Turnpike Authority v. Parsons · De Lorenzo v. City of Hackensack · County of Camden v. Pennsauken Sewerage Authority · Imbrie v. Marsh · 29 N.J. Super. 335 - State v. Parking Authority of the 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Though given a measure of autonomy, it is nevertheless the alter ego of the municipality in the service of this essential public need. While a separate and distinct economic and governmental unit, it is but the means of discharging the local governmental responsibility for the public health, comfort, convenience and welfare in relation to the disposal of sewage, * * *.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The . . . authority, like the municipality which gave it being, is yet an agency or instrumentality for local administration In the vital field of sanitation and health, an area of government that is a primary responsibility of the municipality itself. . . it is . . .the alter ego of the municipality in the service of this essential public need. [ 31 N.J. at 373 ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““The statute thus shows a close relationship between the municipality and the sewerage authority.””
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.