State v. Laws’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions — most recently January 2006 · most notably State v. Kelly (1984), State v. Novembrino (1987)
12 federal appellate · 6 district · 70 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 United States v. Ventresca · Rugendorf v. United States · United States v. Utah Construction & Mining Co. · Wenzler v. Pitchess · 60 Cal. 2d 631 - People v. Morse
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In this regard, it is `well settled in our State that the trial judge has the right, and oftentimes the duty, to review the testimony and comment upon it, so long as he clearly leaves to the jury' ... the ultimate determination of the facts and the rendering of a just and true verdict on the facts as it finds them. [ Ibid. (quoting State v. Laws, 50 N.J. 159, 177 , 233 A. 2d 633 (1967), reargued, 51 N.J. 494 , 242 A. 2d 333 , cert. denied, 393 U.S. 971 , 89 S.Ct. 408 , 21 L.Ed. 2d 384 (1968)).]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“After the search of the Laws' apartment had proved * * * productive, an application was made to Judge Murtagh on May 1, 1965 for a warrant authorizing the search of Apartment #7N, 15 West 139th Street, New York City where the defendant Washington lived with his parents. At this time Judge Murtagh had before him, not only the earlier affidavits of Spahr and Dennis, but also affidavits by Detective Patrick McKee of the New York Police Department and Detective Allmers of the Bergen County Prosecutor's office. Detective Allmers' affidavit set forth that Dennis had identified John Washington from a police photograph as one of the conspirators in the Laws' apartment on April 18th. It referred to the fact that currency, identified as part of the proceeds of the robbery, had been recovered from Laws' apartment, that Laws had been arrested, and that, according to information received from Dennis, additional proceeds would be found in Washington's apartment. * * * Judge Murtagh [also] spoke by telephone with Dennis, who was then in the Bergen County Jail. Under oath, Dennis told him that he had identified Washington from a police photograph as one of the conspirators and that part of the proceeds of the robbery would be found in the Washington apartment. Judge Murtagh also spoke by telephone with Assistant Prosecutor Galda who stated [also] under oath, that he had shown several photographs to Dennis and that Dennis had identified Washington as one of the conspirators.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendants suggest that the State knew before trial that it would move for Baker's acquittal but the record does not establish that fact. In any event, nothing before us indicates that either Washington or Laws suffered prejudice from the joinder of Baker or from his acquittal. That being so, any criticism which may be addressed to the prosecutorial tactics does not constitute reason for reversal of the convictions under appeal here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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