112 N.J. Super. 305 - State v. Butler’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2020 · most notably 71 Ill. 2d 132 - People v. Manning (1978), 172 W. Va. 491 - State v. Zaccagnini (1983)
34 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Bell v. United States · O’Callahan v. Parker, Warden · Gore v. United States · State v. DiRienzo · State v. Reed
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This single act of possession, which occurred at one time and in one place, cannot be the basis for multiple offenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“proscribe two or more separate and distinct criminal acts within the same statute.”
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.