State v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2006
13 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 Brown v. Ohio · Bates v. State Bar · Jeffers v. United States · Simuel v. United States · Horning v. District of Columbia
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the coercive prejudice inherent in giving the jury the choice of all-or-nothing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“State v. Saulnier, supra, 63 N.J. at 205 , it is also in the State's interest to obtain a conviction of a lesser offense when the proofs fail to establish an element of the greater offense. Id. It was also observed in Saulnier that one trial on the greater and lesser offenses, whether indictable or not, is more efficient and more just. 63 N.J. at 205-208 . It allows”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lopez“So, I'll enter a verdict of guilty of larceny as a Disorderly Person. [1] Bail will be continued. The matter will be scheduled for sentencing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lopez
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.