State v. Sewell’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 2025 · most notably State v. Williams (2007), State v. Mejia (1995)
41 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. Butler · State v. Provenzano · State v. Mirault · In Re the Suspension or Revocation of the License of DeMarco · 252 N.J. Super. 323 - State v. Demarest
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the shorthand understanding that robbery equals theft plus assault is inconsistent with the * clear, [but admittedly] complicated, language of the [New Jersey] Code [of Criminal Justice].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Mejia · State v. Alexander“determine[d] the level of culpability necessary to convert theft into robbery.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a. Robbery defined. A person is guilty of robbery if, in the course of committing a theft, he: (1) Inflicts bodily injury or uses force upon another; or (2) Threatens another with or purposely puts him in fear of immediate bodily injury; or (3) Commits or threatens immediately to commit any crime of the first or second degree. An act shall be deemed to be included in the phrase “in the course of committing a theft” if it occurs in an attempt to commit theft or in immediate flight after the attempt or commission. [N.J.S.A 2C:15-l(a)]”
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.