118 N.J. Super. 22 - State v. Roundtree’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently January 2005 · most notably State v. Milligan (1976), 245 N.J. Super. 166 - State v. Foreshaw (1991)
39 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 · Roviaro v. United States · United States v. Radio Television News Directors Ass'n · Ruiz v. District of Columbia Court of General Sessions · In re Quarles
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A mere claim of general inability to reconstruct the events of the period in question is insufficient to establish the requisite prejudice as a basis for a reversal or dismissal of the charge. Particular circumstances resulting from the delay other than a general inability to recollect or reconstruct events on the day of the alleged offense must be shown, [at 29]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Hamlet“Although designated the informer's privilege, the privilege is not that of the informer, but of government `to withhold from disclosure the identity of persons who furnish information of violations of law to officers charged with enforcement of that law.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The purpose of the privilege is to encourage and secure a flow of vital information which can be had only upon a confidential basis.”
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.