State v. Middleton’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2018 · most notably State v. Cromedy (1999), State v. Robinson (2000)
26 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 State v. Green · State v. Vick · State v. Stefanelli · 208 N.J. Super. 399 - State v. Richardson · Asbury Park Press, Inc. v. STATE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well settled that when identification is the crucial issue in the case, the defendant is entitled to a discrete and specific instruction, providing `appropriate guidelines' and `focussing the jury's attention on how to analyze and consider the factual issues with regard to the trustworthiness of [the eyewitnesses's] in-court identification.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he court may amend the indictment ... to correct an error in form or the description of the crime intended to be charged or to charge a lesser included offense provided that the amendment does not charge another or different offense from that alleged and the defendant will not be prejudiced thereby in his or her defense. [ R. 3:7-4.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Dorn“a model charge fit for universal application is impossible of formulation ... [and that the] suggested charge is intended as a tool ... [to be used with] some forethought” and with consideration to”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. McNeil
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.