262 N.J. Super. 487 - State v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Cesare v. Cesare (1998), State v. Scherzer (1997)
2 federal appellate · 43 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 Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education · State v. Carter · State v. Jarbath · State v. Wilbely · State v. Odom
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]urely as a matter of grammar . . . [w]hen items in a list are joined by a comma or semicolon, with an 'or' preceding the last item, the items are disjunctive”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“shall not be cognizable on appeal unless a motion for a new trial on that ground was made in trial court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A person is guilty of an attempt to commit a crime if, acting with the kind of culpability otherwise required for commission of the crime, he: (1) Purposely engages in conduct which would constitute the crime if the attendant circumstances were as a reasonable person would believe them to be; (2) When causing a particular result is an element of the crime, does or omits to do anything with the purpose of causing such result without further conduct on his part; or (3) Purposely does or omits to do anything which, under the circumstances as a reasonable person would believe them to be, is an act or omission constituting a substantial step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in his commission of the crime. [ N.J.S.A. 2C:5-1a]”
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.