207 N.J. Super. 114 - State v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 2000
17 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. MacOn · Bottone v. United States · Remington v. United States · Morton v. United States · Romano v. Kimmelman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[e]ach adult inmate sentenced to a term of life imprisonment shall become primarily eligible for parole after having served any judicial or statutory mandatory minimum term, or 25 years where no mandatory minimum term has been imposed....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“provided that no defendant shall be eligible for parole at a date earlier than otherwise provided by the law governing parole____ [ N.J.S.A. 2C:43-6b (Emphasis supplied) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Reevey
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.