State v. Dillihay’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
109 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 109 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably State v. Vasquez (1992), State v. Maldonado (1994)
109 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 Blockburger v. United States · Brown v. Ohio · Missouri v. Hunter · Whalen v. United States · Albernaz v. United States
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 109 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here . . . a legislature specifically authorizes cumulative punishment under two statutes,. . . a court's task of statutory construction is at an end . . . and the trial court or jury may impose cumulative punishment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“sentenced to no less than the mandatory minimum sentence provided in the school-zone statute.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“Any person who violates subsection a. of N.J.S.A. 2C:35-5 by distributing, dispensing or possessing with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance ... while on any school property ... or within 1,000 feet of such school property or a school bus, or while on any school bus, is guilty of a crime of the third degree and shall, except as provided in N.J.SA 2C:35-12, be sentenced by the court to a term of imprisonment. Where the violation involves less than one ounce of marijuana, the term of imprisonment shall include the imposition of a minimum term which shall be fixed at, or between, one-third and one-half of the sentence imposed, or one year, whichever is greater, during which the defendant shall be ineligible for parole. In all other cases, the term of imprisonment shall include the imposition of a minimum term which shall be fixed, at, or between, one-third and one-half of the sentence imposed, or three years, whichever is greater, during which the defendant shall be ineligible for parole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Vasquez · State v. Gerns
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.