State v. Zelinski’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2000
14 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 State v. Dantonio · Bucino v. Malone · General Public Loan Corp. v. Director of the Division of Taxation · 38 N.J. Super. 6 - State v. Taylor · 60 N.J. Super. 505 - State v. Guerrido
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is inconceivable that anyone was misled by the inadvertent failure to amend the title to conform to the substantive changes in the body of the bill. Hence, there is lacking any semblance of the evil to which the constitutional mandate is addressed. [33 N. J. at 566-566]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Painter v. Painter““To avoid improper influences which may result from intermixing in one and the same act such things as have no proper relation to each other, every law shall embrace but one object, and that shall be expressed in the title.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The credibility of the testimony is for the trial court to assess.”
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.