State v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Guardianship of Smith (1954), State v. Brimage (1998)
51 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. Roth · State v. Butler · State v. Tischio · State v. Des Marets · State v. Lagares
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To allow a court to sentence below the prison term provided in the plea agreement undermines the clear legislative purpose expressed in section 12. Prosecutors would understandably be reluctant to enter into a section 12 plea agreement knowing that in addition to the waiver of the mandatory-minimum parole disqualifier, the defendant could receive only a fraction of the bargained-for time of incarceration. To promote cooperation between drug offenders and law enforce ment, therefore, section 12 must be read to limit a court’s discretion to sentence below the agreed-upon term of imprisonment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McPhall · State v. Stewart“[a]ny person [found guilty of] * * * possessing with intent to distribute a controlled dangerous substance * * * while on any school property * * * or within 1,000 feet of such school property * * * is guilty of a crime of the third degree and shall, except as provided in N.J.S. 2C:35-12, be sentenced by the court to a term of imprisonment. * * * [In cases involving at least one ounce of mariguana], the term of imprisonment shall include the imposition of a minimum term which shall be fixed at * * * [at least] three years, * * * during which the defendant shall be ineligible for parole.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Stewart · State v. Gerns“it is `bound by the specific terms and conditions of that negotiated agreement' for the purpose of imposing sentence.”
2 later decisions 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.