State v. Munoz’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably State v. Hubble (2009), State v. Anaya (2007)
35 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 State v. Rowell · State v. Flores · State v. Reynolds · State v. Galvan · State v. Vargas
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) it is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person, (2) it does not contain those parts or is not at all times equipped with such lamps and other equipment in proper condition and adjustment as is required by Sections 66-3-801 through 66-3-887, or (3) it is equipped in any manner that is in violation of those sections.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Farish“[W]e can ignore [an officer's] inappropriate reference to [the wrong statute] in the citation [he] prepare[s]. If his observations provided reasonable grounds to believe that another statute was being violated, ... the stop was valid, regardless of his incorrect understanding of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Farish“not all windshield cracks obscure the driver's vision, at least not enough to constitute a safety hazard. But when they do constitute such a hazard, one who drives the vehicle creates a danger to the public that is prohibited by Section 66-3-801”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Farish
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.