State v. Norflett’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2015 · most notably Dewey v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. (1990), Connecticut v. Menillo (1975)
51 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 Roe v. Wade · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Steffel v. Thompson · United States v. Harriss · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“At the time that the instant abortion was performed, N. J. S. A. 2A:4-14(2) g and m defined juvenile delinquency as “immorality” or “deportment endangering the morals, health or general welfare of said child.” Effective March 1, 1974, however, the definition of delinquency was substantially restricted by the enactment of L. 1973, c. 306, N. J. S. A. 2A:4-44 (Supp. 1975-76).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. State v. Bowen“In passing on federal constitutional questions, the state courts and the lower federal courts have the same responsibility and occupy the same position; there is parallelism but not paramountcy for both sets of courts are governed by the same reviewing authority of the Supreme Court. [Coleman, supra, 46 N.J. at 36 , 214 A.2d 393 .]”
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.