265 N.J. Super. 351 - State v. Acker’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably State v. Frost (1999), State v. Morton (1998)
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 California v. ARC America Corp. · Newland v. Georgia · Contemporary Mission, Inc. v. United States · State v. Ramseur · Weichert v. United States
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he primary duty of a prosecutor is not to obtain a conviction but to see that justice is done.... Thus, it is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one. [ Id. at 355 , 627 A. 2d 170 (citing State v. Marshall, 123 N.J. 1, 152-53 , 586 A. 2d 85 (1991)).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[w]e would be remiss, however, were we to fail to note that instances of prosecutorial excesses in the course of summation seem to come to this court with numbing frequency.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“egregious . . . the prosecutor's argument that it was the function of the jury to protect young victims of alleged sexual offenses as a group”
2 later decisions 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.