Marro v. Bartlett’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently July 2015
4 federal appellate · 3 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Each such former ... justice of the supreme court may thereafter perform the duties of a justice of the supreme court, with power to hear and determine actions and proceedings, provided, however, that it shall be certificated in the manner provided by law that the services of such ... justice are necessary to expedite the business of the court and that he is mentally and physically able and competent to perform the full duties of such office. Any such certification shall be valid for a term of two years and may be extended as provided by law for additional terms of two years. A retired ... justice shall serve no longer than until the last day of December in the year in which he reaches the age of seventy-six.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“, as a term of enablement but not of entitlement. Rather than connoting some form of continuation of prior judicial service, the Constitution recognizes a complete break termination of the previous judicial status, and the inauguration by the required certification of a new judicial designation. Marro v. Bartlett, 46 N.Y.2d 674, 680 , 416 N.Y. S.2d 212, 389 N.E.2d 808 (1979) (emphasis added). [7] Defendants have the burden of establishing that the exemption applies.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Absent some further constitutional authorization he would be ineligible to serve as a Judge. Such further authorization, however, is found in the provision ”
2 later decisions 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.