125 N.J. Super. 332 - State v. Sheppard’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably State v. Fischer (2010), State v. Fearick (1976)
59 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 State v. Johnson · Presbyterian Church v. Mary Elizabeth Blue Hull Memorial Presbyterian Church · State v. MacUk · City of Newark v. Pulverman · Reinauer Realty Corp. v. Borough of Paramus
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We can conceive of no consideration of basic fairness to, or of constitutional rights of, a criminal defendant which would argue against the right of the State to vindicate a statutory sentencing policy by pursuing timely appellate review of an illegal sentence one beyond the jurisdiction of the sentencing tribunal. [ 125 N.J. Super. at 338 , 310 A. 2d 731 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an illegal sentence becomes `inoperative in [its] entirety and [is] properly vacated.'”
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.