145 N.J. Super. 226 - State v. West’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2010
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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Roviaro v. United States · Cities Service Co. v. United States · Cashen v. Spann · State v. Milligan
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.
“... Investigator Oakley, I submit to you, had no motive to fabricate, no motive to lie. This is one of many cases Investigator Oakley is involved in, and there is no way he would benefit from lying, there is a lot of harm that could come to him from lying because when he goes up there to testify he puts his hand on one of these and he swears that he's going to tell the truth. The police officer's career would be finished in a minute ...”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[t]here is a lot of harm that could come to him from lying,' and `the police officer's career would be finished in a minute'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“were improper and should not be repeated on the retrial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.