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← 159 N.J. 183 - State v. Chew

State v. Chew’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
1
states following
May 2007
most recently cited

24 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on State v. Marshall · State v. DiFrisco · State v. Clausell · 249 N.J. Super. 336 - State v. Engel · State v. Di Frisco

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Proportionality review seeks to determine only whether a particular death sentence is aberrational ....”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “`relentlessly documented the risk' of racial disparity in the imposition of the death penalty.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “whether the punishment fits the criminal.”
    1 later decision 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.