State v. Benally’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
173 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 177 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably State v. Barber (2004), State v. Cabezuela (2011)
173 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. Cunningham · State v. Parish · State v. Baca · State v. Armijo · State v. Armendarez
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 177 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard of review we apply to jury instructions depends on whether the issue has been preserved. If the error has been preserved we review the instructions for reversible error. If not, we review for fundamental error. Under both standards we seek to determine whether a reasonable juror would have been confused or misdirected by the jury instruction.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Coleman · State v. Stefani“For you to find . . . [Defendant guilty of neglect of a resident resulting in death, as charged in Count 1, the State mustprove to your satisfaction beyond a reasonable doubt each of the following elements of the crime: 1. Jared . . . was an adult who resided at [Defendant’s] residence; 2. [Defendant’s] residence was a care facility; 3. [Defendant], subjectto Jaredf’s] . .. right to refuse treatment and subject to [Defendant’s] right to exercise sound medical discretion, was grossly negligent in her failure to take any reasonable precaution that was necessary to prevent damage to Jaredf’s] . . . health; 4. [Defendant’s] failure resulted in Jared[’s] . . . death; 5. This happened in New Mexico on or about the 30th day of September 2007.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[J]uror confusion or misdirection may stem not only from instructions that are facially contradictory or ambiguous, but from instructions which, through omission or misstatement, fail to provide the juror with an accurate rendition of the relevant law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Candelaria
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.