52 N.J. Super. 316 - State v. Cottone’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2006 · most notably State v. Mirault (1983), State v. Williams (1963)
42 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 Railway Employes' Department v. Hanson · State v. Pontery · State v. Corby · State v. McCall · In Re Stern
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We speak of “presence” because the robbery undoubtedly took place in her presence, in the sense that she saw the two men go upstairs, later heard the thumping of the safe on the steps, and then heard the voices outside and the car when it was brought into the garage and when it was driven away—all this while she was helpless and in fear of her physical safety.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Pitts“... a court may send a jury back for further deliberations when it is not satisfied that all possibilities of reaching a verdict have been exhausted, but it may not coerce or unduly influence the jury in reaching a verdict.”
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.