State v. Ottman’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
January 2017
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Jessen · State v. Van Alcorn · State v. Palomarez
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“think of another woman [the victim’s wife] who will be waiting for your verdict too. On December 16th at about 7:30 in the evening she had everything to look forward to. She had her house here, they were retired, husband had a part-time job, her children are fine and well in New Jersey and at 9:30 she’s at the hospital with her husband and he’s dead. I can guarantee you that her life is totally destroyed. She had nothing to look forward to, nothing. You may think sympathy for someone else but in terms of that woman, she wants justice and that’s your duty to as jurors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Jones
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.