Wilentz v. Hendrickson’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Harvey v. Essex County Board of Freeholders (1959), Alexander v. New Jersey Power & Light Co. (1956)
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 90 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 · M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Edward Prigg v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania · United States v. Childs · Attorney General v. Chicago & Northwestern Railway Co.
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing is consideration * * * that is not regarded as such by both parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““1. That Chapter 290 of the Laws of 1941 and Chapter 241 of the Laws of 1942 are in contravention of Article I, Section 20, of the Constitution of the State of New Jersey [N.J.S.A.], and are null and void. 1 “2. That the defendant, Robert C. Hen-drickson, State Treasurer, his successors in office and his and their respective agents and servants, be and they are hereby each, severally, permanently restrained and enjoined from carrying out or executing any and all of the provisions of Chapter 290 of the Laws of 1941 and of Chapter 241 of the Laws of 1942, and from accepting from any railroad taxpayer any acceptance documents, discharges or dismissals, discontinuances, checks or other forms of payment which may be delivered to him or them or which were heretofore delivered to him or them in purported compliance with Chapter 290 of the Laws of 1941 and Chapter 241 of the Laws of 1942, and from depositing any such checks or other forms of payment or distributing the proceeds thereof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Courts must always be alert to detect and suppress all evasions of constitutional interdictions. Thus, the determination of the basic questions in the present cause ought not to rest so much upon technicalized reasoning as upon a circumspect and enveloping comprehension of the effect of these statutes.”
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.