State v. Rodriguez’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State Ex Rel. Klineline v. Blackhurst (1988), State v. JAVIER M. (2001)
48 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. Trujillo · Bokum Resources Corp. v. New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission · State v. Ortiz · 54 Ill. App. 3d 517 - People v. Davis · State v. Tapia
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As [DJefendant has pointed out, this Court construes penal statutes strictly in favor of the accused. In doing so, we follow established rules of statutory construction. A statute should be construed in light of the purpose for which it was enacted. The general purpose of burglary statutes is to protect possessory rights with respect to structures and conveyances, and to define prohibited space. Section 30-16-3 expressly includes vehicles as a prohibited space. Since this Court must give words used in a statute their ordinary meaning unless the legislature indicates a different intent, we hold that the bed of a pickup truck, as a part of a vehicle, falls within the statutorily protected area.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“At common law, burglary was “an offense against the security of habitation or occupancy.” C. Torcia, 3 Wharton’s Criminal Law § 326 (14th ed. 1980). This Court has described the statutory offense as one against “the security of the property which is entered.” State v. Ortiz, 92 N.M. 166 , 584 P.2d 1306 (Ct.App.1978). This change in definition reflects the legislature’s expansion of the dwelling house requirement to include various movable and immovable structures * * *. ****** * * * The general purpose of burglary statutes is to protect possessory rights with respect to structures and conveyances and to define “prohibited space.” [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bybee“the unauthorized entry of any vehicle, watercraft, aircraft, dwelling or other structure, movable or immovable, with the intent to commit any felony or theft therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Muqqddin
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.