State v. Munoz’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably State v. Stanley (2001), State v. Wildgrube (2003)
34 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 Patterson v. New York · Scott v. Rizzo · State v. Salazar · State v. Orosco · State v. Parish
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The act of the defendant was a significant cause of the death of [the victim]. The defendant's act was a significant cause of death if it was an act which, in a natural and continuous chain of events, uninterrupted by an outside event, resulted in the death and without which the death would not have occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Guzman“The propriety of jury instructions given or denied is a mixed question of law and fact”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Ortiz“applied [her] brakes or otherwise been able to avoid ramming the victim[]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. State v. Guzman
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.