216 N.J. Super. 662 - State v. Shipp’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably State v. Schmidt (1988), State v. Palacio (1988)
38 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. Reyes · State v. Davis · State v. Brown · State v. Reed · Albergo v. Reading Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Criminal `possession signifies intentional control and dominion, the ability to affect physically and care for the item during a span of time, accompanied by knowledge of its character.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Zapata · State v. Schmidt“defendant's presence in the automobile under [these] circumstances ... does not suffice to authorize an inference that he was sharing in the intentional control and dominion over the contraband material.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[m]ere knowledge, without more, on the part of one automobile passenger that a co-passenger is carrying illicit drugs does not constitute the former a co-possessor.”
2 later decisions 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.