State v. Serrone’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably State v. Ramseur (1987), State v. Yarbough (1985)
31 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 State v. Maguire · In Re Parole Application of Trantino · State v. Zarinsky · State v. Maxey · 176 N.J. Super. 174 - State v. Hubbard
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[m]urder is the most heinous and vile offense proscribed by our criminal laws,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.