State v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently February 2018
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Stanley v. Georgia · Lloyd v. Vermeulen · State v. Wingler · State v. Clark · Pringle v. New Jersey Department of Civil Service
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The defendant shall receive credit on the term of a custodial sentence for any time he has served in custody in jail or in a state hospital between his arrest and the imposition of sentence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State ex rel. W.M. · State v. Towey“... his sentence under the Act was clearly a custodial one which comes within the letter as well as the purpose of the rule. [ Ibid., emphasis in original]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Surely no member of this Court had any such semantical differentiation in mind when he voted for the adoption of R. 3:21-8 and its predecessors. [ 60 N.J. at 58 ].”
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.