157 N.J. Super. 118 - State v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2008
5 federal appellate · 15 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 Olff v. East Side Union High School District · 109 N.J. Super. 57 - State v. Kimbrough · State v. Burt · 107 N.J. Super. 390 - State v. Burt
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We conclude that the prosecutor’s comments did not in any way deprive defendant of his right to confront the witnesses against him or of his right to be present at his trial. Obviously he did confront these witnesses and was present at his trial. And a reasonable reading of the comments clearly reveals that they were a comment on the credibility of defendant’s testimony. It is well settled that when a defendant waives his right to remain silent and takes the stand in his own defense, he thereby subjects himself to cross-examination as to the credibility of his story. And that issue would involve whether the story had been fabricated. State v. Kimbrough, 109 N.J.Super. 57 , 67, 262 A.2d 232 (App.Div.1970); State v. Burt, 107 N.J.Super. 390 , 393, 258 A.2d 711 (App.Div.1969), aff'd. o.b. 59 N.J. 156 , 279 A.2d 850 (1971), cert. denied, 404 U.S. 1047 , 92 S.Ct. 728 , 30 L.Ed.2d 735 (1972). Here the issue of defendant’s credibility was whether his testimony was tailored to that of the testimony of other witnesses, a perfectly proper inquiry.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“He [defendant] was sitting here while Mr. Buniak testified. Mr. Buniak told us he used a specific mortar, a specific color in making mortar ... When I asked Mr. Robinson [defendant] about that, he said he used the same color. He had the ability to sit here and listen to the other witnesses testify.... [ State v. Robinson, supra, 157 N.J.Super. at 119 , 384 A. 2d 569 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“comported with the other stories that were presented in a way which I would point at and say it looks incredible to me. It doesn't look credible. It looks unbelievable. It looks like something fabricated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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