140 N.J. Super. 28 - State v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2009
22 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 130 N.J. Super. 336 - State v. Kluber · Seatrain Lines, Inc. v. Medina · State v. Rucker · 26 N.J. Super. 581 - State v. Gratale Brothers, Inc. · 46 N.J. Super. 162 - State v. Rucker
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when placed in the pocket in the shape of a gun and combined with threatening words or gestures, [becomes] an object [which] is capable of making a victim believe that defendant was armed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any object or device, whether toy or imitation, having an appearance similar to or capable of being mistaken for any of the foregoing. [L.1959, c. 148 § 1.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Hutson“contemplates punishment based on the victim's perception of what defendant had in his possession, rather than what he actually had.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.