State v. Silverstein’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2010
20 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 Ford v. United States · State v. La Fera · 76 N.J. Super. 536 - State v. Silverstein · North Lawrence Citizens Ass'n v. Township Committee
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the test of validity is whether the indictment in reasonably understandable language charges the defendant with commission of the essential factual ingredients of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is a necessary condition to assumption of office, of itself it creates no particular duty, transgression of which”
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.