State v. Covell’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably State v. Koskovich (2001), State v. Jenkins (2004)
74 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Bruton v. United States · California v. ARC America Corp. · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Attwood v. Singletary
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence of other crimes, wrongs, or acts is not admissible to prove the disposition of a person in order to show that he acted in conformity therewith. Such evidence may be admitted for other purposes, such as proof of motive, opportunity, intent, preparation, plan, knowledge, identity or absence of mistake or accident when such matters are relevant to a material issue in dispute.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Gaskin · State v. Beckler“[ State v. Cofield, 127 N.J. 328, 338 , 605 A. 2d 230 (1992) (internal citations omitted) ].”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Being sexually attracted to young girls does not, as defendant properly asserts, prove that he intended to commit a crime, much less a crime of a sexual nature against A.P. However, it does make it more likely that defendant's purpose in beckoning to A.P. was to commit a sexual crime with or against her. [ State v. Covell, 157 N.J. 554, 566-67 , 725 A. 2d 675 (1999)(emphasis added).]”
2 later decisions 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.