140 N.J. Super. 232 - State v. Abrams’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably State v. Bryant (1987), Laumer v. United States (1979)
26 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. MacOn · State v. Davis · 62 N.J. Super. 522 - Band's Refuse Removal, Inc. v. Fair Lawn Bor. · 135 N.J. Super. 513 - State v. Kennedy · 138 N.J. Super. 80 - State v. Sease
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The portion of [the] declaration which is exculpatory of Abrams suggests that [the declarant] was not merely his agent or partner in the drug sale; it intensifies [the declarant’s] personal criminal responsibility for the transaction. ... The appropriate test for admissibility is whether, in the context of the whole statement, the particular remark was plausibly against the declarant’s penal interest, even though it might be neutral or even self-serving if considered alone. [Id. at 235-36, 356 A.2d 26 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. White“I, Chenille Smith, sold Ernest [the detective] a bag of cocaine, but I didn’t and never got nothing from Barry [Abrams], [Ibid.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. White“that a reasonable person in declarant's position would not have made the statement unless the person believed it to be true.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Norman
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.