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← 37 N.J. 189 - Durgin v. Brown

Durgin v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis

1962

Citation profile

52
cited by 52 later decisions
6
states following
December 2005
most recently cited

2 district · 49 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Devonshire Development Associates v. City of Hackensack (1981), Town of Londonderry v. Faucher (1972)

2 district · 49 state decisions

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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 Harvey v. Essex County Board of Freeholders · Reilly v. Ozzard · Nolan v. Fitzpatrick · Citizens, & C., Public Funds v. Bd. of Educ. Tp. of Parsippany-Troy Hills · 52 N.J. Super. 416 - Botkin v. Mayor & Borough Council of Westwood

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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of free public schools for the instruction of all the children in the State between the ages of five and eighteen years.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Tonelli v. Board of Education · 321 N.J. Super. 67 - Hamel v. State
  2. “the requirement for the exhaustion of the administrative remedy is neither jurisdictional nor absolute in its terms.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 191 N.J. Super. 84 - Redeb Amusement, Inc. v. Tp. of Hillside · 185 N.J. Super. 142 - Fallon v. Scotch Plains-Fanwood Bd. of Ed.
  3. “suitable school facilities and accommodations for all children who reside in the district and desire to attend the public schools therein.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 86 N.J. Super. 29 - Schults v. Bd. of Ed. of Teaneck

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.