State v. Diaz’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably State v. Duffy (1998), State v. Copeland (1986)
64 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 Berger v. United States · State v. Day · State v. Gunzelman · State v. Ruffino · State v. Vallejos
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The taxpayers pay me, pay the judge, even pay Mr. Lane, and they're gonna pay you for being here two days. Please remember ladies and gentlemen, that I represent the State, and just like [the defendant] is represented by Mr. Lane, I represent you and all the other people in the Sixth Judicial District which covers three counties. You are my clients. I'm here to protect your rights. I'm here to protect the security of your homes, your places of business. The people of New Mexico come in here and presented this case to you * * *. When you start putting judges on trial, Supreme Court Justices, prosecutors who represent the people * * *. Just remember, the style of this case is State of New Mexico versus [the defendant] * * *. And the people of this district ask you to find him guilty of both counts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Torres · State v. Torres“telling the jury in effect to disregard the defense [of intoxication] even if they [found] it meritorious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garvin“in order to establish the intoxication defense[,] the defendant would have to produce expert testimony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Garvin
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.