State v. Hernandez’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2018
14 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. Sutphin · State v. Garcia · State v. Johnson · State v. Vigil · State v. Ibn Omar-Muhammad
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The defendant discharged a firearm at a car full of people; 2. The defendant's act caused the death of Sunni Reza; 3. The act of the defendant was greatly dangerous to the lives of others, indicating a depraved mind without regard for human life; 4. The defendant knew that his act was greatly dangerous to the lives of others; 5. The defendant did not act in self-defense or defense of another; 6. This happened in New Mexico on or about the 31[st] day of May, 2013. A person acts with a depraved mind by intentionally engaging in outrageously reckless conduct with a depraved kind of wantonness or total indifference for the value of human life. Mere negligence or recklessness is not enough. In addition, the defendant must have a corrupt, perverted, or malicious state of mind, such as when a person acts with ill will, hatred, spite, or evil intent. Whether a person acted with a depraved mind may be inferred from all the facts and circumstances of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Candelaria“The cause of death is an act which, in a natural and continuous chain of events, produces the death and without which the death would not have occurred. There may be more than one cause of death. If the acts of two or more persons contribute to cause death, each such act is a cause of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Trujillo“defendant fired a rifle at a group of people”); State v. Ibn Omar-Muhammad, 102 N.M. 274, 276 , 694 P.2d 922, 924 (1985) (describing the act as”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Reed
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.