State v. States’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Abbamont v. Piscataway Township Board of Education (1994), State v. Des Marets (1983)
78 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. Labato · State v. Currie · Swede v. City of Clifton · State v. Reed · State v. Maier
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n many situations where criminal statutes overlap in prohibiting the same basic act, the proper prosecuting authority in the sound exercise of the discretion committed to him may proceed under either act.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[r]elevant practical factors as well as considerations of fair play, and the reasonable expectations of the Legislature and the public relating to control of the conduct proscribed, are permitted to influence the discretion of the proper authority as to the course to be followed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is unusual to find a defendant contending that he should not be tried on a disorderly persons charge,”
2 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.