Carter v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Steelvest, Inc. v. Scansteel Service Center, Inc. · 155 N.J. Super. 129 - Houman v. Mayor & Coun. Bor. Pompton Lakes · Giddings & Lewis, Inc. v. Industrial Risk Insurers · Sam Horne Motor and Implement Company v. Gregg · Talbott, Com'r of Finance v. Public Service Com'n
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A public agency cannot ratify actions improperly taken in closed session. When conversations and actions regarding the public’s business should not have occurred in private in the first place, an agency cannot render those actions valid by simply taking a vote in open session without any discussion of the matter.”
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.