State v. Costa’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably State v. Orecchio (1954), State v. Begyn (1961)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 46 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 Albert Twining v. State of New Jersey · State v. Cooper · In Re Pillo · State v. Cleveland · 12 N.J. Super. 132 - State v. Fox
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.
““It is true that the statutory offense requires proof of an additional ingredient not necessary to be shown upon an indictment for keeping a disorderly house. The common law offense is established when it is proved that the defendant permitted his place to be used by persons whose conduct to his knowledge rendered the place disorderly, whatever his intent may have been. Proof of the statutory offense, however, must reach beyond, to his intent, and support the inference that the defendant intended that persons should resort to the place for the purpose of gambling. State v. Ackerman, 62 N. J. L. 456 (Sup. Ct. 1898); State v. Griffin, 85 N. J. L. 613 (E. & A. 1914); State v. Terry, 91 N. J. L. 539 (E. & A. 1918), reversing 89 N. J. L. 522 (Sup. Ct. 1916) * * *.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“* * * such comment is ordinarily improper unless there is evidence of inculpatory acts or conduct of the accused which, if true, must be within his personal knowledge and in some degree impute his guilt or tend to prove some element of the offense, and which facts he can disprove by his own oath as a witness if the facts be not true.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * it [legal impeachment by the State of its own witnesses] protects the State against the inference that vital information [on credibility] was withheld from the jury, which inference we suppose may be made if the facts are first developed on cross-examination of the State’s witnesses.” Id. 11 N.J. at 249 , and Id. 94 A.2d at 308 .”
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.