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← 73 N.J. 331 - State v. Cohen

State v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

33
cited by 33 later decisions
3
states following
October 2017
most recently cited

11 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Barna, Barna v. City of Perth Amboy (1994)

11 federal appellate · 18 state decisions

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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 Carroll v. United States · Chimel v. California · Chambers v. Maroney · Harris v. United States · Alexander v. New Jersey Power & Light 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “... generally a governing body can directly exercise its police power only within its jurisdictional boundaries, absent a statute broadening those powers ... Consequently police officers can normally exercise the powers inhering in their office only within the confines of the jurisdiction which employs them, [at 342]”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 456 N.J. Super. 436 - State v. Goines · 192 N.J. Super. 128 - State v. O'Donnell
  2. “have all the powers conferred by law on police officers or constables in the enforcement of laws of this state and the apprehension of violators thereof.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Mineo v. Port Authority of New York & New Jersey · Port Authority Police Benevolent Association Inc v. Port Authority of New York and New Jersey F
  3. “a governing body can directly exercise its police power only within its jurisdictional boundaries, absent a statute broadening those powers.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. 411 N.J. Super. 392 - State v. Kueny · 280 N.J. Super. 377 - State v. Montalvo

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.