155 N.J. Super. 11 - State v. Rios’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently March 1997
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 Loper v. Beto · State v. Kociolek · State v. Manley · State v. Hawthorne · Commonwealth v. Lockwood
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.
“The ordinary legal meaning of “conviction,” when used to designate a particular state of a prosecution triable by a jury, is the confession of the accused, in open court, or the verdict returned against him by the jury, which ascertains and publishes the fact of his guilt . .. [at 607, quoting Commonwealth v. Lockwood, 109 Mass. 323 (1872)]”
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.