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State v. Gerald’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

193
cited by 193 later decisions
5
states following
January 2017
most recently cited

191 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 193 later decisions — most recently January 2017 · most notably State v. Michaels (1994), State v. Martin (1990)

191 state decisions

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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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Terry v. Ohio · Wong Sun v. United States · Johnson v. Zerbst · Edwards v. Arizona

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 193 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(not charged here), a conviction based on a theory of vicarious liability cannot subject the defendant to death-penalty proceedings. The own-conduct provision”
    15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. State v. Cooper · State v. Mejia
  2. “[t]he death-penalty statute clearly exposes to the death penalty one who purposely or knowingly causes serious bodily injury resulting in death.”
    8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Cooper · State v. Chew
  3. “a defendant who is convicted of purposely or knowingly causing `serious bodily injury resulting in death' under N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3(a)(1) and (2), or either of them — as opposed to one who is convicted of purposely or knowingly causing death under those same provisions — may not be subjected to the death penalty.”
    7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. State v. Jackson · 282 N.J. Super. 86 - State v. Yothers

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.