19 N.J. Super. 350 - State v. Edelman’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 1975
21 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 Board of Medical Examiners v. Steward · Parker v. State · People v. . Ferola · 158 Pa. Super. 179 - Philadelphia v. Cline · State v. Zdanowicz
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our appellate courts have not always been entirely clear in their expressions on the subject.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the State presents direct evidence of a material fact which is prejudicial to the defendant and which is within his personal knowledge, then his failure to deny the fact justifies an inference unfavorable to the defendant. If the fact is conclusive of his guilt, his silence justifies a strong inference that he cannot deny the charge contained in the indictment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“An accomplice is apt to believe that if his testimony supports the contention of the State, the representatives of the State will accept it as true and will grant him favorable treatment, even though his testimony is, in fact, false.”
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.