239 N.J. Super. 620 - State v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently November 2018
22 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 Pointer v. Texas · Roviaro v. United States · Cities Service Co. v. United States · State v. Smith · State v. Burnett
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial judge must determine the importance of disclosure in the particular case to counsel's ability to conduct an effective cross-examination on the witness' ability to perceive. The necessity for disclosure must then be weighed against the consequences of revealing the vantage point.... If the vantage point is in a private home or a place of business, real potential for reprisal against the owner may weigh against disclosure. If maintenance of secrecy is necessary to protect ongoing investigations, this must be considered; if the site is no longer used or useful, other considerations could control.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We conclude that the trial judge should have conducted a hearing on the question of the necessity for withholding the location of [the officer’s] vantage point similar to the kind of hearing held when the defendant demands the identity of an informer. The trial judge must accommodate the competing interests of the criminal defendant and the State. (Citation omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Garcia“The appropriate standard for reviewing ... a motion for disclosure is to determine whether the trial court abused its discretion after weighing the competing considerations of the balancing test.”
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.