State v. Grey’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably State v. Cooper (1997), 127 Md. App. 678 - Bates & Beharry v. State (1999)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 United States v. Powell · Dunn v. United States · United States v. Dotterweich · Standefer v. United States · Scherl v. Fisher
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nconsistent verdicts therefore present a situation where `error' in the sense that the jury has not followed the court's instructions, most certainly has occurred, but it is unclear whose ox has been gored.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Cooper · State v. Ellis“[i]n such cases, we should not speculate as to whether the verdicts resulted from jury lenity, compromise, or mistake not adversely affecting the defendant.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Defendant relies on State v. Peterson, 181 N.J.Super. 261 , 437 A.2d 327 (App.Div.1981), certif. denied, 89 N.J. 413 , 446 A.2d 144 (1982), which qualified the general rule of acceptance of inconsistent verdicts by stating that unless inconsistent verdicts preclude the establishment of an element of an offense, an acquittal does not affect the validity of a conviction supported by sufficient evidence. However, Peterson relied in part on the reasoning of United States v. Hannah, 584 F.2d 27 (3d Cir.1978), which was later disapproved in Powell . In State v. Burnett, 245 N.J.Super. 99 , 584 A.2d 268 (App.Div.1990), the court rejected the Peterson rule that an acquittal on one offense that precludes the finding of one or more elements of a second offense invalidates a conviction on the second offense because it believed that this Court would apply the doctrine of unreviewability even in such circumstances. [State v. Grey, supra, 147 N.J. at 11, 685 A.2d 923 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Ellis
How this case has been treated — in progress
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