222 N.J. Super. 122 - State v. Roach’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2026
10 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. Roth · Board of Education v. Mapp · State v. Reyes · State v. Valentin · State v. Sainz
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“N.J.S.A. 24:21-2. State v. Heitzman, 209 N.J. Super. 617, 621 (App.Div. 1986), aff'd, 107 N.J. 603 (1987). As the clear and unambiguous language of the statute admits of no other interpretation further exploration to discern legislative intent is unnecessary. State v. Valentin, 208 N.J. Super. 536, 539 (App.Div. 1986), aff'd, 105 N.J. 14 (1987). As we observed in State v. Sainz, 210 N.J. Super. 17, 25 (App.Div. 1986), aff'd, 107 N.J. 283 (1987), distribution under the Act is present”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Ibid. In Heitzman , we also noted that distribution does not require a commercial sale but can take place in the sharing of marijuana with social guests. 209 N.J. Super. at 620-621 . We perceive no valid distinction between the passing of an unlighted or lighted marijuana cigarette from one person to another as would permit the delivery of the unlighted material to be considered distribution of a controlled dangerous substance but not the transfer of a lighted”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he trial court finds that the termination is necessary because of the failure of the jury to agree upon a verdict after a reasonable time for deliberation has been allowed.”
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.