State v. Meadors’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 141 later decisions — most recently August 2023 · most notably State v. Varela (1999), State v. Duffy (1998)
141 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 · North Carolina v. Pearce · Delaware v. Van Arsdall · Davis v. Alaska · Brown v. Ohio
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 141 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the defendant could not have committed the greater offense in the manner described in the charging document without also committing the lesser offense, and therefore notice of the greater offense necessarily incorporates notice of the lesser offense; (2) the evidence adduced at trial is sufficient to sustain a conviction on the lesser offense; and (3) the elements that distinguish the lesser and greater offenses are sufficiently in dispute such that a jury rationally could acquit on the greater offense and convict on the lesser.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Lente · State v. Garcia“an offense [is] a lesser-included offense of another only if the statutory elements of the lesser offense are a sub-set of the statutory elements of the greater offense such that it would be impossible ever to commit the greater offense without also committing the lesser offense.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“New Mexico has embraced a form of the strict elements test, based on Blockburger v. United States . . . as an aid in determining legislative intent for double jeopardy purposes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Armendariz
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.