State v. Maldonado’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently January 2020 · most notably State v. Jordan (1997), State v. Johnson (2001)
80 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 · In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Furman v. Georgia · Lockett v. Ohio · Grayned v. City of Rockford
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"First, does the punishment for the crime conform with contemporary standards of decency? Second, is the punishment grossly disproportionate to the offense? Third, does the punishment go beyond what is necessary to accomplish any legitimate penological objective?" [ Maldonado, supra, 137 N.J. at 556-57 , 645 A. 2d 1165 (quoting State v.. Ramseur, 106 N.J. 123, 169 , 524 A. 2d 188 (1987)).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“[a]ny person who manufactures, distributes or dispenses ... [a] controlled dangerous substance (CDS) classified in Schedules I or II ... is strictly liable for a death which results from the injection, inhalation[,] or ingestion of that substance, and is guilty of a crime of the first degree.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`of common intelligence must necessarily guess at its meaning and differ as to its application.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.