State v. Maldonado’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2011
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Leonardis · State v. Leonardis · State v. Lagares · State v. Bender · State v. Dalglish
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] `patent and gross abuse of discretion' is more than just an abuse of discretion as traditionally conceived; it is a prosecutorial decision that `has gone so wide of the mark sought to be accomplished by PTI that fundamental fairness and justice require judicial intervention.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]o reverse the denial of an application for PTI[,] a defendant must clearly and convincingly establish that the prosecutor's refusal to consent to admission to the program was based upon a patent and gross abuse of discretion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Therefore, in a number of situations in which the prosecutor is vested with a broad measure of discretion, in order to pass constitutional scrutiny, certain prosecutorial decisions have been held to be subject to judicial review for arbitrariness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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