State v. Petties’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably State v. Muhammad (2005), State v. Grey (1996)
54 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 United States v. Powell · State v. Des Marets · State v. Concepcion · State v. Coyle · State v. Lee
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a jury instruction on a charge of gun possession for unlawful purpose [under N.J.S.A. 2C:39-4a] must include an identification of such unlawful purposes as may be suggested by the evidence,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Williams · State v. Brims“If a search were to disclose large quantities of drugs and cash in a home, one might infer that any handguns found in the home were possessed for the unlawful purpose of aiding drug trafficking. Does that mean that a prosecutor would have to show specifically which completed crime the actor intended with the guns? We think not. [State v. Petties, 139 N.J. at 316 , 654 A.2d 979 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In this case, the State contends that the Defendant's unlawful purpose in possessing the firearm was to use it unlawfully against the person of Tammy Erickson.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Williams · State v. Brims
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.