208 N.J. Super. 61 - State v. Childs’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2007
12 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. Peace · 122 N.J. Super. 177 - State v. Hyers · 204 N.J. Super. 639 - State v. Childs · 137 N.J. Super. 79 - State v. Fields
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would be inequitable to insist upon forfeiture and that forfeiture is not required in the public interest.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“According to the prosecutor, defendant's failure to appear and disappearance necessitated six adjournments of the trial and three weeks of investigation as to his whereabouts before he was apprehended. The trial court correctly observed that there was no indication that defendant's mother [the surety] played any role whatsoever in assisting the State in locating defendant. That defendant's mother was not a commercial bondsman did not relieve her of her supervisory responsibility over defendant during his release or her obligation to have aided the police in his apprehension and return to custody. 208 N.J. Super. at 64-65 , 504 A. 2d 1212 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(a) whether the applicant is a commercial bondsman; (b) the bondsman's supervision, if any, of defendant during the time of his release; (c) the bondsman's efforts to insure the return of the fugitive; (d) the time elapsed between the date ordered for the appearance of defendant and his return to court; (e) the prejudice, if any, to the State because of the absence of defendant; (f) the expenses incurred by the State by reason of the default in appearance, the recapture of the fugitive and the enforcement of the forfeiture; (g) whether reimbursement of the expenses incurred in (f) will adequately satisfy the interests of justice.”
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.