212 N.J. Super. 608 - State v. Prudden’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2011
23 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 Strickland v. Washington · Shepard v. United States · State v. Kelly · State v. Bullard · State v. Hurd
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the trial court ruled [that] the letters' contents [were] admissible only for the limited purposes of impeaching [the] defendant's credibility and to explain and challenge the basis for the opinions of the psychiatric experts, and [although the trial court] carefully instructed the jury on these limited proper uses for the letters, we agree with [the] defendant that these instructions did notand could notadequately insure that the letters would not be considered as proof of the truth of the hearsay accusations they contained. ... How could the jury possibly disentangle the charges in [those] letter[s] and treat the letter[s] only as evidence of state of mind, and forget about the substance of the charges?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Linehan v. State“"We harbor no reservations concerning the witness' opinion that the footprints could not have been made by [the defendant's lover]. The State's evidence clearly established that the techniques employed by the witness were sufficiently reliable to permit an expert opinion excluding [the defendant's lover] on the basis of the prints taken at the scene as compared with the samples submitted. However, we question whether the State *Page 651 presented sufficient evidence relating to the scientific reliability of the techniques employed to enable Dr. Lovejoy to reach the conclusion that there was a 'high probability' the footprints left in the bedroom and bathroom were those of defendant."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Morphological footprint comparison involves the analysis of the form and structure of the foot. We use the term here to distinguish this technique from the more common procedure of identification of prints by way of comparison of dermatological ridges.”
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.