State v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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

1. “specify whether the act is murder as defined by N.J.S.A. 2C:11-3(a)(1), (2) or (3) and whether the defendant is alleged to have committed the act by his own conduct and whether the defendant is alleged to have procured the commission of the offense by payment or promise of payment, of anything of pecuniary value.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Long

2. “We vacate the sentence of death and remand the matter to the Law Division for further proceedings in accordance with this opinion. A retrial of the guilt phase will be required if the defendant does not plead to capital murder. [ Id. at 492-93 , 572 A. 2d 607 .]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. State v. Jackson

3. “defendant[s] exposed to the death penalty ... to state anything that can support an aggravating factor.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Simon