325 N.J. Super. 521 - State v. Garbin’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2013 · most notably State v. Frankel (2004), State v. Edmonds (2012)
36 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 Mincey v. Arizona · Cady v. Dombrowski · Wayne v. United States · 21 Cal. 4th 464 - People v. Ray · Cavuoti v. New Jersey Transit Corp.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A police officer’s observation of a person operating a motor vehicle in a manner that indicates something may be wrong with the vehicle or its driver is one recognized circumstance in which the police may take appropriate action in the performance of their community care-taking responsibilities. For example, in State v. Martinez, 260 N.J.Super. 75, 78 , 615 A.2d 279 (App.Div.1992) we stated that a police officer’s observations of a motor vehicle being driven at less than 10 m.p.h. “suggest[ed] a number of objectively reasonable concerns,” including that “something might be wrong with the car ... [or] its driver.” Consequently, we held that these concerns justified “the minimal intrusion involved in a simple inquiry stop.” Id. Similarly, in State v. Goetaski, 209 N.J.Super. 362 , 507 A.2d 751 (App.Div.1986), we upheld the validity under the community care-taking doctrine of a stop of a person who was driving slowly on the shoulder of a state highway with his left turn directional signal flashing. We concluded that observations of such unusual operation of a vehicle provided a reasonable basis for the police officer to believe that there was something wrong with the vehicle or its driver. Id. at 366 , 507 A.2d 751 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Rinehart“[a] police officer's observation of a person operating a motor vehicle in a manner that indicates something may be wrong with the vehicle or its driver is one recognized circumstance in which the police may take appropriate action in the performance of the community caretaking responsibilities”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“may provide the requisite authority for entry into a private residence without a warrant”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pinkard
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.