322 N.J. Super. 512 - State v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably State v. Thomas (2001), United States v. Remoi (2005)
2 federal appellate · 41 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 13701 (§ 20101 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994) · 42 U.S.C. § 13702 (§ 20102 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994)
Relies on State v. Roth · State v. Butler · Brewer v. Porch · State v. O'DONNELL · State v. Galloway
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.
“means any crime in which the actor causes death, causes serious bodily injury as defined in subsection b. of N.J.S. 2C:11-1, or uses or threatens the immediate use of a deadly weapon.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“independent act of force or threat of force against the victim that is additional to the constituent elements of the crime.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Report of the Study Commission on Parole, December 1996, p. 13 (emphasis added). The recommended amendment of N.J.S.A. 2C:43-7.2d, that linked the definition of crimes of violence to crimes involving the use of a deadly weapon was intended to narrow, not broaden, the Act's coverage. To apply NERA when violence was neither intended nor threatened contradicts that purpose. The Legislature is presumed to be familiar with judicial construction of statutes. Whether an otherwise innocent object, such as an automobile or a kitchen knife, is regarded as a deadly weapon is resolved by a”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Burford
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.