State v. Muhammad’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

48 state decisions

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

1. “Consistency in the verdict is not necessary. Each count in an indictment is regarded as if it was a separate indictment. . . . [W]e determine whether the evidence in the record was sufficient to support a conviction on any count on which the jury found the defendant guilty.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 399 N.J. Super. 268 - State v. Becheam · State v. Lopez

2. “In other words, the prosecutor impaled defendant on his silence, intimating that an innocent man would not have stopped speaking to the police officers, but would have revealed to them the defense offered as truth at trial.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 384 N.J. Super. 351 - State v. Elkwisni · 398 N.J. Super. 574 - State v. Noble

3. “offers broader protection than its federal counterpart under the Fifth Amendment.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 457 N.J. Super. 14 - State v. Andrews · State v. Nyhammer