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← 120 N.M. 47 - Coyazo v. State

Coyazo v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1995

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
2
states following
August 2016
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably Duncan v. Campbell (1997), Dunn v. McFeeley (1999)

2 federal appellate · 10 district · 16 state decisions

160199520002010decided

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

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Gideon v. Wainwright · San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez · Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. · Harris v. McRae · Kelsaw v. Oregon

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “a full-time salaried public employee of a governmental entity, or a certified part-time salaried police officer employed by a governmental entity, whose principal duties under law are to hold in custody any person accused of a criminal offense, to maintain public order or to make arrests for crimes].]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “district attorneys in their prosecutorial role”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Fernandez

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.