State v. Rodriguez

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, at the public expense, “a non-English-speaking municipal court defendant has the right to a court interpreter whenever that defendant is confronted with imprisonment or any other ‘consequence of magnitude’ upon conviction”
• noting that the decision to grant a non-English-speaking municipal court defendant an interpreter is subject to the “sound discretion” of the court
• likening waiver of interpreter to waiver of counsel and using framework of the Federal Court Interpreters Act to dictate the procedure
• discussing the significance and importance of interpreters in court proceedings
• reversing two traffic violations on the same grounds
• finding waiver by attorney alone ineffective

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Rigoberto Mejia v. New Jersey Department of Corrections
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2016-08-11· cited 37×
• State v. Alsanea
  Idaho Court of Appeals· 2003-01-16· cited 32×
• State v. Guzman
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1998-06-29· cited 31×
• State of Iowa v. Carlos Ariel Gomez Garcia
  Supreme Court of Iowa· 2017-11-17· cited 23×
• Daoud v. Mohammad
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2008-07-24· cited 22×
• State v. Quixal
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2013-07-17· cited 10×
• In Re Perrin
  D. New Jersey· 1999-04-22· cited 9×
• Alicea v. Board of Review
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 2013-08-28· cited 5×
• State v. J.Z.S.
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2000-05-12· cited 1×
• State of Iowa v. Carlos Ariel Gomez Garcia
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2016-11-09
• State v. Oscar R. Juracan-Juracan
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 2023-08-15

Cites

28 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Johnson v. Zerbst
  Supreme Court· 1938-05-31· cited 10,545×
• Gideon v. Wainwright
  Supreme Court· 1963-03-18· cited 8,419×
• Pointer v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-04-05· cited 4,761×
• State v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1964-04-20· cited 1,662×
• State v. Rush
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1966-03-07· cited 193×
• United States of America Ex Rel. Rogelio Nieves Negron v. The State of New York
  Second Circuit· 1970-10-15· cited 173×
• Wyoming Community Development Authority v. Durning
  Supreme Court· 1987-11-09· cited 165×
• Rodriguez v. ROSENBLATT
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1971-05-10· cited 143×
• State v. Dively
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1983-04-14· cited 111×
• State v. DeLuca
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1987-07-21· cited 88×
• United States v. Martin Medina Tapia
  Fifth Circuit· 1980-12-03· cited 65×
• State v. Emery
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1958-06-16· cited 55×
• State v. Laird
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1957-11-12· cited 50×
• State, in Interest of Rr
  Supreme Court of New Jersey· 1979-01-31· cited 48×
• Wiggins v. City of Chicago
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1873-09-15· cited 45×
• United States v. Mosquera
  E.D. New York· 1993-03-16· cited 37×
• People v. Carreon
  California Court of Appeal· 1984-01-31· cited 35×
• State v. Wiggins
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1978-03-22· cited 29×
• Phillips v. City of Martinez
  Supreme Court· 1991-05-20· cited 26×
• State v. Linares
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1983-10-07· cited 24×