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← 213 NJ 89 - State v. Sowell

State v. Sowell’s Empirical Analysis

2013

Citation profile

13
cited by 13 later decisions
1
states following
July 2018
most recently cited

13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · State v. Marshall · State v. Bankston · State v. Odom · State v. Berry

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.

  1. “the difference between drugs possessed for distribution as opposed to personal use, or how drug traffickers package and distribute illegal drugs,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “within the competence of the jury, expert testimony is not needed.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “how a person's actions fit into a drug distribution scheme when the defendant had no personal contact with the drugs or money exchanged,”
    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.