State v. Jonathan M.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
126 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 130 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State Ex Rel. Helman v. Gallegos (1994), Sims v. Sims (1996)
126 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. Pitts · Storey v. University of New Mexico Hospital/BCMC · State v. Favela · New Mexico Beverage Co. v. Blything · State v. Michael R.
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 130 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When a statute contains language which is clear and unambiguous, we must give effect to that language and refrain from further statutory interpretation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the public interest, to remove from children committing delinquent acts the adult consequences of criminal behavior, but to still hold children ... accountable for their actions to the extent of the child's age, education, mental and physical condition, background and all other relevant factors, and to provide a program of supervision, care and rehabilitation....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. MATTER OF ZAC McV.“The Children’s Code ... shall be interpreted and construed to effectuate the following legislative purposes: B. [T]o provide judicial and other procedures through which the provisions of the Children’s Code are executed and enforced and in which the parties are assured a fair hearing and them constitutional and other legal rights are recognized and enforced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jade G.
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.