State v. Fekete’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 84 later decisions — most recently October 2023 · most notably State v. Coffin (1999), State v. Martinez (1999)
82 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Berkemer v. McCarty · Colorado v. Connelly · Moran v. Burbine · Culombe v. Connecticut
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 84 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The doctrine of transferred intent is a legal fiction that is used to hold a defendant criminally liable to the full extent of his or her criminal culpability ... where a defendant, while intending to kill one person, accidentally kills an innocent bystander or another unintended victim.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez · State v. Torres“we examine the 'totality of the circumstances' surrounding the confession in order to decide the ultimate question of voluntariness.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“For you to find the defendant guilty of first degree murder by a deliberate killing as charged in Count 1, the state must prove to your satisfaction beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following elements of the crime: 1. The defendant killed CHRIS ALFRED MARTINEZ; 2. The killing was with the deliberate intention to take away the life of CHRIS ALFRED MARTINEZ or any other human being; 3. The defendant did not act in defense of himself or another; 4. This happened in New Mexico on or about the 8th day of March, 1995. A deliberate intention refers to the state of mind of the defendant. A deliberate intention may be inferred from all of the facts and circumstances of the killing. The word deliberate means arrived at or determined wpon as a result of careful thought and the weighing of the consideration for and against the proposed course of action. A calculated judgment and decision may be arrived at in a short period of time. A mere uneonsidered and rash impulse, even though it includes an intent to kill, is not a deliberate intention to kill. To constitute a deliberate killing, the slayer must weigh and consider the question of killing and his reasons for and against such a choice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coffin
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.