State v. Clifford’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
100 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 100 later decisions — most recently October 2019 · most notably State v. Cunningham (2000), State v. Woodward (1995)
100 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 · Lee v. Lee · Matter of Adoption of Doe · State v. Orosco · State v. Osborne
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 100 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“review issues raised in appellate briefs that are unsupported by cited authority. When a criminal conviction is being challenged, counsel should properly present [the reviewing] court with the issues, arguments, and proper authority. Mere reference in a conclusory statement will not suffice and is in violation of our rules of appellate procedure.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“We reiterate our holding in [ State v.] Bunce [ 116 N.M. 284 , 861 P.2d 965 (1993) ] that the failure to include an essential element in the elements instruction can never be corrected by including the concept elsewhere in the instructions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Acosta“To be convicted under Section 30-42-4(A), [the d]efendants must have committed at least two punishable offenses that constitute racketeering.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Catt
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.