236 N.J. Super. 378 - State v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

7 state decisions

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “the extraordinarily long term of 30 years without parole is the minimum statutory sentence”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Rogers · 285 N.J. Super. 501 - Merola v. Department of Corrections

2. “(1) there can be no free crimes in a system for which the punishment shall fit the crime; (2) the reasons for imposing either a consecutive or concurrent sentence should be separately stated in the sentencing decision; (3) some reasons to be considered by the sentencing court should include facts relating to the crimes, including whether or not; (a) the crimes and their objectives were predominantly independent of each other; (b) the crimes involved separate acts of violence or threats of violence; (c) the crimes were committed at different times or separate places, rather than being committed so closely in time and place as to indicate a single period of aberrant behavior; (d) any of the crimes involved multiple victims; (e) the convictions for which the sentences are to be imposed are numerous; (4) there should be no double counting of aggravating factors; (5) successive terms for the same offense should not ordinarily be equal to the punishment for the first offense; and (6) there should be an overall outer limit on the cumulation of consecutive sentences for multiple offenses not to exceed the sum of the longest terms (including an extended term, if eligible) that could be imposed for the two most serious offenses. [State v. Yarbough, supra, 100 N.J. at 643-44 , 498 A.2d 1239 (footnotes omitted).]”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. State v. Rogers

3. “[a]lthough a defendant may be vicariously accountable for the crimes his accomplice commits, he is not vicariously accountable for aggravating factors that are not personal to him.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 443 N.J. Super. 553 - State of New Jersey v. Reginald Anthony