State Supreme Court / N.J.

State v. Catania

Decided March 16, 1981. Robert Nathan Wilentz wrote the opinion for the court.

427 A.2d 537 · Cited 63 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

State v. Dye · 291 A.2d 825
State v. Carpentieri · 414 A.2d 966
State v. Howery · 404 A.2d 632
Commonwealth v. Vitello · 327 N.E.2d 819
Warden v. Kahn · 99 Cal. App. 3d 805
Rodriguez v. State · 297 So. 2d 15
In Re In-Progress Trace of a Wire Communication · 386 A.2d 1295
Spease and Ross v. State · 338 A.2d 284
State v. Guhl · 230 S.E.2d 22
State v. Ayres · 118 N.H. 90
Wilks v. Commonwealth · 217 Va. 885
State v. Burstein · 427 A.2d 525
State v. Nash · 317 A.2d 689
State v. Cerbo · 397 A.2d 671

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