Molinaro v. New Jersey’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
479 federal appellate · 39 district · 320 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 1,162 later decisions (24 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2024 · most notably United States v. Sharpe (1985), Carlisle v. United States (1996)
479 federal appellate · 39 district · 320 state decisions — followed in 37 states
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 Eisler v. United States · Allen v. State of Georgia · Smith v. United States · Bonahan v. State of Nebraska
Cited together with Estelle v. Dorrough · Ortega-Rodriguez v. United States · Bonahan v. State of Nebraska · Eisler v. United States · Smith v. United States
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 1,162 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No persuasive reason exists why this Court should proceed to adjudicate the merits of a criminal case after the convicted defendant who has sought review escapes from the restraints placed upon him pursuant to the conviction. While such an escape does not strip the case of its character as an adjudicable case or controversy, we believe it disentitles the defendant to call upon the resources of the Court for determination of his claims.”
90 later decisions 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.