State v. Feaster’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably State v. Morton (1998), State v. Koskovich (2001)
73 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 Berger v. United States · Irvin v. Dowd · Wainwright v. Witt · Adams v. Texas · Lutwak v. United States
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In capital cases that present a jury question whether a defendant is guilty of death-eligible own-conduct murder or accomplice-liability murder, the trial court, after instructing the jury on the requisite elements of the charged offenses, should instruct the jury first to determine whether the defendant is guilty of purposeful- or-knowing murder. See Gerald, supra, 113 N.J. at 100 , 549 A.2d 792 . The jury should be instructed that only if it unanimously reaches a guilly verdict on that offense should it then determine whether the defendant committed the murder “by his own conduct” or, alternatively, as an accomplice, the charge emphasizing that because those alternatives are mutually exclusive the jury should consider them simultaneously. During the course of its instructions, the court should make clear to the jury that it need not be unanimous on the own-conduct determination, and it must inform the jury of the legal consequences of its own-conduct finding. [ Feaster, supra, 156 N.J. at 42 , 716 A.2d 395 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After carefully examining the record and recognizing that some of the prosecutor's remarks were improper, nonetheless, we are fully satisfied `that it was the weight of the evidence ... that led to this capital murder conviction rather than the prosecutor's improper comments.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[b]ecause it is exclusively within the province of the jury to find fact and evaluate witness credibility, a trial court may not vouch for the credibility of a witness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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