State v. Meltzer’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2009
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Toussie v. United States · State v. Weleck · State v. New Jersey Trade Waste Ass'n. · State v. Wein · State v. La Fera
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An offense is committed either when every element occurs or, if a legislative purpose to prohibit a continuing course of conduct plainly appears, at the time when the course of conduct or the defendant's complicity therein is terminated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that it is not `plainly clear' the New Jersey Legislature intended to proscribe bail jumping as a continuous offense”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in effect, establishes a presumption against the fact that an offense is a continuous one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.