State v. Contreras’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 87 later decisions — most recently December 2021 · most notably State v. Rojo (1998), State v. Bernal (2006)
6 federal appellate · 79 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 Blockburger v. United States · Missouri v. Hunter · Whalen v. United States · Kashif v. United States · Swafford v. State
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 87 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The plain-error rule, however, applies only if the alleged error affected the substantial rights of the accused. We must be convinced that admission of the testimony constituted an injustice that created grave doubts concerning the validity of the verdict.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez · State v. Gwynne“It is not enough to say that the armed robbery merges with the felony murder or to allow the trial court to impose concurrent sentences for armed robbery and felony murder. ... [T]he second conviction is itself punishment that has potential adverse consequences. Thus allowing the conviction to stand or allowing sentencing on that conviction would impose multiple punishments in violation of the Double Jeopardy Clause.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lopez“Maj. Op. ¶ 22. Similar to Whalen , Frazier could not have been convicted of felony murder without all of the elements of kidnapping having first been proved. Since kidnapping is subsumed by the felony-murder charge in this case, Frazier's kidnapping charge is a lesser-included offense of his felony-murder charge. {58} The next inquiry is whether the kidnapping and the subsequent killing of Knoll were part of the”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Frazier
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.