State v. Lefante’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Martini (1993), State v. Rios (1955)
36 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 Winberry v. Salisbury · State v. Winne · State v. Di Giosia · Gardner v. State · State v. Morris
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The judgment of the Appellate Division of the Superior Court is reversed, and the judgment of the Hudson County Court is reinstated.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person ... who, being of the age of sixteen or over, shall unlawfully and carnally abuse a woman-child under the age of twelve years, with or without her consent, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor____ [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Collins““'No judgment given upon any indictment shall be reversed for any imperfection, omission, defect or lack of form, or for any error except such as shall have prejudiced the defendant in maintaining his defense upon the merits.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Borrell
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.