20 N.J. Super. 354 - State v. Shoopman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The offense of driving an automobile on a highway in a careless and reckless manner, and at an excessive rate of speed, especially when under the influence of intoxicating liquor, was created for the very purpose of preventing collisions and consequent injury to others who may be on the highway. To the mind of the writer, it would be a mere travesty of justice to hold that because one is convicted of having driven his automobile on a public highway in a careless and reckless manner, while in a state of intoxication, that such a conviction is a bar to a charge of manslaughter which was the result of the carelessness and recklessness of the driver of the automobile. * * * Moreover, where certain acts are prohibited by law.the prohibited acts may be punished as a separate and distinct offense, while the consequences which may, and at times do,' follow, but are not necessarily the result of such prohibited acts, may likewise be punished as a separate and distinct offense.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Shoopman

2. ““The penalty imposed by the recorder for the violation of the Motor Vehicle Act is not the judgment of a criminal court within the meaning of such plea. The penalties that are affixed to police and traffic regulations are such as are deemed sufficient by the Legislature to insure their observance, and hence lack the punitive and deterrent quality of the criminal law as it is administered by the criminal courts. It is the judgment of a criminal court for the same offense that prevents the second court from a reduplication of such judgment * *”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Shoopman

3. “carelessly and heedlessly, in willful or wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 208 N.J. Super. 422 - State v. DeLuca