141 N.J. Super. 317 - State v. Sempsey’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably State v. Garfole (1978), 223 N.J. Super. 409 - State v. Bogus (1988)
25 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 110 So. 2d 654 - Williams v. State · State v. Hector · Nester v. State · State v. Best · State v. Jamison
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.
“so nearly identical in method as to earmark the crime as defendant's handiwork.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Subject to Rule 47, evidence that a person committed a crime or civil wrong on a specified occasion, is inadmissible to prove his disposition to commit crime or civil wrong as the basis for an inference that he committed a crime or civil wrong on another specified occasion but, subject to Rule 48, such evidence is admissible to prove some other fact in issue including motive, intent, plan, knowledge, identity, or absence of mistake or accident.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Both attacks occurred late at night. Defendant knew the victims in both instances from having- worked in their apartments and thus knew there were no men residing- with them. In both instances the eyes of the victims were taped to conceal the attacker’s identity; he wore peculiar head gear, a dark jacket and pants. In both instances the attacker possessed a gun and upon leaving instructed the victims to count or he would shoot. The victims were threatened with death if they screamed. He smelled of grease, was unable to obtain an erection and resorted to fellatio. [141 N. J. Super. at 323-324]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garfole
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.