113 N.J. Super. 120 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. Marshall (1991), State v. La Porte (1973)
32 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 Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Chambers v. Maroney · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Bumper v. North Carolina
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.
““[t]he action in issuing the warrant [or order] is ex parte and merely appraises the prima facie showing of probable cause. The motion proceeding is adversarial, and the judge adjudicates all questions of law and fact posed on the challenge of the validity of the warrant [or order].””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the invalidity of the search warrant for purposes of this opinion.”
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.