316 N.J. Super. 181 - State v. Collier’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably State v. Lykes (2007), State v. Gillispie (2011)
34 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. MacOn · State v. Carter · State v. Cofield · State v. Stevens · State v. Marrero
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The evidence of the other crime [or wrong] must be admissible as relevant to a material issue; 2. It must be similar in kind and reasonably close in time to the offense [or wrong] charged; 3. The evidence of the other crime [or wrong] must be clear and convincing; and 4. The probative value of the evidence must not be outweighed by its apparent prejudice. [ State v. Cofield, 127 N.J. 328, 338 , 605 A. 2d 230 (1992).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the other-crime evidence by confining its admissibility to those facts reasonably necessary for the probative purpose of”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We conclude that a trial judge, in admitting other-crimes evidence that is inherently inflammatory must take appropriate steps to reduce the inherent prejudice of that evidence by considering whether it can reasonably be presented to the jury in a less prejudicial form, and, when necessary, requiring the evidence to be presented to the jury in a sanitized form. That sanitizing accommodates the right of the proponent to present relevant evidence and the right of the objecting party to avoid undue prejudice.”
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.