Boryszewski v. Brydges’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently January 1999 · most notably Highgate Condominium Ass'n v. Watertown Fire District (1989), State Ex Rel. Udall v. Public Employees Retirement Board (1995)
21 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We are now prepared to recognize standing where, as in the present case, the failure to accord such standing would be in effect to erect an impenetrable barrier to any judicial scrutiny of legislative action. In the present instance it must be considered unlikely that the officials of State government who would otherwise be the only ones having standing to seek review would vigorously attack legislation under which each is or may be a personal beneficiary.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Retirement benefits are a component of present compensation (cf. Matter of Day v. Mruk, 307 N.Y. 349, 354 , 121 N.E.2d 362, 363 ). We accordingly conclude that there is no substance to petitioners' claims that the executive and legislative retirement plan is unconstitutional. [ 37 N.Y.2d at 367 ; 372 N.Y.S. 2d at 629 , 334 N.E.2d at 583 ] A similar challenge was made to a pension plan in West Virginia. Campbell v. Kelly, 202 S.E. 2d 369 (Sup. Ct. 1974). The constitutional provision at issue therein was adopted in 1872 and it stated, in part:”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the security offered by membership in the retirement system is generally regarded as an inducement to employment in state service or in the public schools. The value of the retirement benefits and prospective rate of payment, especially in the face of continued inflation, is of vital concern to the [members] and might well be the determining factor in their decision to continue in the teaching profession, or seek more lucrative employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.