State v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2004 · most notably 307 N.J. Super. 162 - Prudential Property & Casualty Insurance v. Boylan (1998), State v. Milligan (1976)
25 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 Davis v. Alaska · McKeiver v. Pennsylvania · United States v. Kozminski · Perry v. Commerce Loan Co. · Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen v. Southern Railway Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Procedural Records. Procedural records include the docket, petitions, complaints, citations, summonses, orders, calendars, index cards, minutes, intake and referral forms, and transcripts of the verbatim record of any proceeding in the court. (b) Social Records. Social records include all reports and correspondence pertaining to a person's social, familial, environmental, psychological, psychiatric, medical, educational, vocational, institutional, probation or parole history, background, examination, diagnosis, treatment or adjustment. (c) Availability. All procedural and social records in juvenile matters and all social records in adult matters shall be strictly safeguarded from indiscriminate public inspection. The court may, in its discretion, in the best interest of a juvenile or adult or for other good cause, permit inspection of any procedural or social record, except that procedural and social records shall be available on a confidential basis, without court order, to attorneys for the parties and in juvenile matters also to his parents, guardian or custodians, to the chief probation officer and his assistants; to state and county correctional training schools and institutions, to the State Bureau of Children's Services for investigational, treatment or placement purposes; to justices and judges of the Supreme and Superior Court and the county and juvenile and domestic relations courts; and to the Governor of the State. Social records shall not be used as evidence ”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(1) Any court or probation department; (2) The Attorney General or county prosecutor; (3) The parents or guardian and to the attorney of the juvenile; (4) The Division of Youth and Family Services, if providing care or custody of the juvenile; (5) Any institution to which the juvenile is currently committed; and (6) Any person or agency interested in a case or in the work of the agency keeping the records, by order of the court for good cause shown. [ L. 1973, c. 306, § 24]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a. Social, medical, psychological, legal and other records of the court and probation division, and records of law enforcement agencies, pertaining to juveniles charged as a delinquent or found to be part of a juvenile-family crisis, shall be strictly safeguarded from public inspection. Such records shall be made available only to: * * * (6) Any person ... interested in a case ... by order of the court for good cause shown.”
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.