253 N.J. Super. 149 - State v. Levine’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
January 2002
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blanton v. General Electric Credit Corp. · Suter v. San Angelo Foundry & MacHine Company · Greenwald v. Maryland · State v. Butler · Frackelton v. Swanson
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.
“[w]here a literal rendering [of a statute] will lead to a result not in accord with the essential purpose and design of the act, the spirit of the law will control the letter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[a] petition to correct an illegal sentence may be filed at any time.”
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.