242 N.J. Super. 367 - State v. Downey’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2017
2 district · 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 Furman v. Georgia · State v. Leonardis · State v. Vance · In Re Investigation Regarding Ringwood Fact Finding Committee Re Violation of N. J. S. A. 19:34-38.1 · State v. Park
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts have not taken an expansive view of the scope of the de minimis statute. That caution is especially warranted in the present case which involves a direct intentional physical attack upon another. Even under an expansive reading of the de min-imis statute, such behavior should not be classified as trivial.”
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.