36 N.J. Super. 219 - State v. Gambutti’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently April 2001 · most notably State v. Reyes (1967), State v. Long (1990)
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 Michelson v. United States · State v. Ellison · Bridges v. State · Deevy v. Porter · People v. Bonneau
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.
“`that the competency of a child to be a witness is a matter for inquiry by the trial judge and rests largely in his discretion.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“provable in recognition of the adverse inference which might be expected to flow from silence and for the purpose of negativing or rebutting in advance a self-contradiction which, if not explained, would tend to discredit her as a witness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is justified on the theory that upon the happening of such an outrage, the pattern of normal human behavior would be to complain of it to persons in the designated category,”
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.