State v. Apodaca’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
228 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 234 later decisions — most recently April 2021 · most notably State v. Rojo (1998), State v. Woodward (1995)
228 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 Lee v. Brown · State v. Sutphin · State v. Garcia · State v. Lankford · 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 234 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`An abuse of discretion occurs when the ruling is clearly against the logic and effect of the facts and circumstances of the case.'”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Romero · State v. Woodward“whether the evidence viewed in this manner could justify a finding by any rational trier of fact that each element of the crime charged has been established beyond a reasonable doubt.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although framed as a challenge to the sufficiency of evidence, [the d]efendant's argument requires us to engage in statutory interpretation to determine whether the facts of this case, when viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, are legally sufficient to sustain a conviction”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Cruz
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.