148 N.J. Super. 219 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1996
2 district · 6 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 Garrity v. State of New Jersey · Illinois Power Co. v. Local Union No. 51, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers · Achilli v. United States · Yanow v. Seven Oaks Park, Inc. · State v. Auld
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But the husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual matrimonial consent and contract the wife hath given up herself in this kind unto her husband, which she cannot retract. [1 Hale, History of the Pleas of the Crown ]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“Any person who has carnal knowledge of a woman forcibly against her will ... is guilty of a high misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment for not more than 30 years, or both .... [N.J. S.A. 2A:138-1 (repealed)]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Smith“compelling force derived from our system of jurisprudence which must not be lightly disregarded.”
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.