79 N.J. Super. 149 - Ressel v. Costello’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2004
6 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 Town of West New York v. Bock · 33 N.J. Super. 477 - D'Ippolito v. Maguire · Lennon v. Brandt · Town of West New York v. Bock · 25 N.J. Super. 92 - State v. Lee
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of the statute is to afford the officer implicated a full and fair hearing within a reasonable time after service of a copy of the charges. The Legislature has fixed this time at ... not more than 30 days for commencement of the hearing. Yet, a failure to comply with the letter of the law has been held to be not fatal, when there has been a compliance with the spirit of the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“when there is a pending indictment against the officer growing out of the same incident, a postponement of the departmental hearing is frequently requested by the police officer charged and granted by the municipal officials to avoid prejudicing the officer at the criminal trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“examination shall be commenced not less than fifteen days nor more than thirty days after said copy of such charge or charges shall have been so served”
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.