State v. Yoskowitz’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
2 district · 78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably State v. P.Z. (1997), 270 N.J. Super. 55 - State v. Baker (1994)
2 district · 78 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Blockburger v. United States · Santobello v. New York · Green v. United States · Illinois v. Vitale
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]f the same evidence used in the first prosecution is the sole evidence in the second, the prosecution of the second offense is barred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[S]omeone was being subjected to potentially unfair treatment and there was no explicit statutory or constitutional protection to be invoked. Fundamental fairness is a doctrine that is an integral part of due process, and is often extrapolated from or implied in other constitutional guarantees. The doctrine effectuates imperatives that government minimize arbitrary action, and is often employed when narrowed constitutional standards fall short of protecting individual defendants against unjustified harassment, anxiety, or expense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“test); and (2) whether the evidence actually used to establish guilt in the first prosecution is identical to that which will be used in the second (the”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.