197 N.J. Super. 615 - State v. Link’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably State v. Yarbough (1985), State v. Kromphold (2000)
28 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 State v. Roth · State v. Carter · State v. Rodriguez · 195 N.J. Super. 135 - State v. Yarbough · 132 N.J. Super. 487 - State v. Blow
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here an essential element of a crime is a specific fact ... that element may not be used as an aggravating factor to impose a custodial sentence that is longer than the presumptive term or to impose a period of parole ineligibility”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial judge considered as an aggravating factor the fact that the assault was committed upon a police officer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“a variety of alternative fact patterns each of which is aggravating to a different degree.”
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.