85 N.J. Super. 127 - State v. Donley’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently July 2009
6 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 In Re Lewis · 14 N.J. Super. 277 - State v. Gooze · Murphy v. Zink · Staub v. Public Service Railway Co. · Murphy v. Zink
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The act was intended to make it easier to obtain convictions in such cases and to act as a deterrent to reckless operators of vehicles. The legislation was proposed by the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles. See the 28th Annual Report of the Commissioner to the Legislature for the year 1933 (State Library 1974.901 M71). As originally introduced, the bill provided that any person who, by operation of any vehicle”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“is guilty of the crime of involuntary homicide and, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a prison term not exceeding three years or by a fine of not more than $1,000, or both. After a period of study, the bill was supplanted by a Committee Substitute which read, simply, that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any person who shall cause the death of another by recklessly driving any vehicle shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.”
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.